Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

shagged

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.36 in modern English

Syllables: shagged
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having or covered with shaggy hair.

adj

Unkempt; clothed in rags; ragged.

Obsolete

adj

Of garments and fabrics: having a rough or long nap.

Obsolete

adj

Covered with scrub, trees, or rough or shaggy growth.

adj

Jagged; having a rough, uneven surface.

adj

Of hair: long; rough; shaggy.

verb

simple past and past participle of shag

adj

Extremely tired.

Slang

Example Sentences

"No, I am shagged, for I know, / Jack Ragaboy, awhile ago, / Got sorely flogg'd for begging there; / The beadle had him to the may'r!""
"An Sal sung out, "why dis here wall, / It looks sa old an hagged; / I'm mortally afared 'twill fall / An I was deadly shagged."

Etymology

From Old English sceacgede, from sceacga (“hair”), from Proto-Germanic *skaggiją (“beard, stem”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kek-, *(s)keg- (“to jump, move, hurry”).

Origin

Source language: Old English

Word Breakdown

Root: sceacgede, *skaggiją, *(s)kek-

Usage

Inflected Forms

more shagged (comparative) most shagged (superlative)

Derived Forms

shaggedness unshagged

Phrases

shagged out

Synonyms

shaggy

Questions

What does shagged mean?: Having or covered with shaggy hair.
Where does shagged come from?: It is traced to Old English.

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