SHAGGY


Meaning of SHAGGY in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

shaggy dog story

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

head

A glow behind her shaggy head is moonlight, cloud scarred at the change of seasons.

Occasionally, it gave its enormous, shaggy head a turn.

The big shaggy head turned to look at me.

My co-voyager was propped against the rail, great shaggy head nodding as he seemed to half-doze.

He is a one-man debauch. - See him, the drunkard, his huge shaggy head filled with nonsenses!

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a shaggy dog

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A shake roof is rather shaggy in appearance.

Bare yellow skin on head and throat, ruff shaggy , bill much slenderer than other vultures.

I imagined the shaggy beast confused, not knowing which of us to chase.

In the distance, live oaks dotted the landscape, as shaggy and dark and hunched as buffalo.

Occasionally, it gave its enormous, shaggy head a turn.

The mammoth had a shaggy coat to protect it against the rigours of the ice ages.

The peak was scalloped into two shaggy wings across its western exposure, which made it appear to be embracing the cove.

These actions cause the eye, beak and face to vanish beneath the shaggy white ruff.

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