Shag

Quick meaning: Shag is a noun meaning Matted material; rough massed hair, fibres etc.

Meaning

Matted material; rough massed hair, fibres etc.

More Meanings

1. Coarse shredded tobacco.
2. A type of rough carpet pile.
3. (UK, Ireland, archaic) Bacon or fat, especially if with some remaining hair or bristles.
4. (UK, Ireland, archaic) A roughly-cut or torn-off piece of bread or cheese.
5. (often attributive) A deliberately messy, shaggy hairstyle.
6. (transitive) To make hairy or shaggy; to roughen.
7. (intransitive, obsolete) To hang in shaggy clusters.

Example Sentences

And long curld locks that downe his shoulders shag

He was rather unshaven as well and smelt strongly of shag.

romancing Shelley between / sips of thermos tea and / yeasty shags of bread, sour-sweet, / from Lizzie Coutinho’s bakery.

But it is a braw elemental sphere this o' ours, for here's a good queich o' claret for ye, an' a shag o' butter-an'-bread.

Word Forms

• shags
• shagging
• shagged
• shack

Synonyms for shag

Depending on context, synonyms include social, friend, jiggle, rock, tremble, quake.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include screwing, ass, screw, hump, kissing, kiss.

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