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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Shaggy \Shag"gy\, adjective [Compar. {Shaggier}; superl. {Shaggiest}.] [From {Shag}, noun] Rough with long hair or wool.
About his shoulders hangs the shaggy skin. --Dryden.
2. Rough; rugged; jaggy. --Milton.
[A rill] that winds unseen beneath the shaggy fell. --Keble.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
shaggy
adjective
1: used of hair; thick and poorly groomed; "bushy locks"; "a shaggy beard" [syn: {bushy}]
2: having a very rough nap or covered with hanging shags; "junipers with shagged trunks"; "shaggy rugs" [syn: {shagged}] [also: {shaggiest}, {shaggier}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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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