What does shaggy mean?
Shaggy means Having long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur or wool..
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/ˈʃæɡi/ · adjective
Having long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur or wool..
a shaggy dog
They waited until Dorothy awoke the next morning. The little girl was quite frightened when she saw the great pile of shaggy wolves, but the Tin Woodman told her all. She thanked him for saving them and sat down to breakfast, after which they started again upon their journey.
Away from the village, there was an enclosure containing several large animals of a kind I had not seen before—shaggy, long-necked, small-headed creatures who stood or lay at ease around their pen. Alpacas?
Universal and Blumhouse’s M3gan is exactly the right amount of ridiculous, which is why it can afford to be a little shaggy toward the end.
Use shaggy when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Shaggy means Having long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur or wool..
Common synonyms include rough, shagged, unsmooth, bushy.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
a shaggy dog
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