SHAGGY-DOG


Meaning of SHAGGY-DOG in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˌsha-gē-ˈdȯg ]

adjective

Date: 1946

: of, relating to, or being a long-drawn-out circumstantial story concerning an inconsequential happening that impresses the teller as humorous or interesting but the hearer as boring and pointless ; also : of, relating to, or being a similar humorous story whose humor lies in the pointlessness or irrelevance of the punch line

a shaggy-dog comedy

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