shaggy

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
shaggy
    adj 1: used of hair; thick and poorly groomed; "bushy locks"; "a
           shaggy beard" [syn: {bushy}, {shaggy}, {shaggy-haired},
           {shaggy-coated}]
    2: having a very rough nap or covered with hanging shags;
       "junipers with shagged trunks"; "shaggy rugs" [syn:
       {shagged}, {shaggy}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Shaggy \Shag"gy\, a. [Compar. {Shaggier}; superl. {Shaggiest}.]
   [From {Shag}, n.]
   Rough with long hair or wool.
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         About his shoulders hangs the shaggy skin. --Dryden.
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   2. Rough; rugged; jaggy. --Milton.
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            [A rill] that winds unseen beneath the shaggy fell.
                                                  --Keble.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
72 Moby Thesaurus words for "shaggy":
      bristly, broken, bumpy, bushy, choppy, cirrose, coarse,
      coarse-grained, corrugated, cross-grained, disheveled, fleecy,
      flocculent, furry, fuzzy, grainy, granulated, hairy, hirsute,
      hispid, homespun, horripilant, inequal, irregular, jolty, knobbed,
      lanate, linsey-woolsey, matted, messed up, mussed up, nappy,
      nubbly, nubby, pilose, pily, pimply, pitted, pocky, potholed,
      pubescent, rank, ripply, rough, rough-cast, rough-grained,
      rough-hewn, ruffled, rumpled, rutted, rutty, shagged, snaggy,
      snarled, studded, textured, tousled, tously, tumbled, uncombed,
      uncut, uneven, unkempt, unlevel, unpolished, unrefined, unshorn,
      unsmooth, untidy, ununiform, wimpled, woolly

    

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