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Also Inflected form of shag

shagged

shag·ged

uncommon obsolete rare slang vulgar

adjective

1.

having a very rough nap or covered with hanging shags

  • “junipers with shagged trunks”
  • “shaggy rugs”
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Origin

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”).

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