shag
Meanings
Plural: shags
Noun
- a strong coarse tobacco that has been shredded
- a matted tangle of hair or fiber
- "the dog's woolly shag"
- a fabric with long coarse nap
- "he bought a shag rug"
- slang for sexual intercourse
- a lively dance step consisting of hopping on each foot in turn
- Matted material; rough massed hair, fibres etc.
- Coarse shredded tobacco.
- A type of rough carpet pile.
- Bacon or fat, especially if with some remaining hair or bristles.
- A roughly-cut or torn-off piece of bread or cheese.
- A deliberately messy, shaggy hairstyle.
- Any of several species of sea birds in the family Phalacrocoracidae (cormorant family), especially a common shag or European shag (Phalacrocorax aristotelis), found on European and African coasts.
- A swing dance.
- An act of sex.
- A casual sexual partner.
- A fundraising dance in honour of a couple engaged to be married.
- Friend; mate; buddy.
Verb
- dance the shag
- To make hairy or shaggy; to roughen.
- To hang in shaggy clusters.
- To shake, wiggle around.
- To have sex with.
- To have sex.
- To masturbate.
- To chase after; especially, to chase after and return (a ball) hit usually out of play.
- To perform the dance called the shag.
Adj
- Hairy; shaggy.
- Exhausted, worn out, extremely tired.
- Tough and exhausting.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English *schagge, from Old English sċeacga (“hair, wool”), from Proto-Germanic *skaggô, *skaggiją (“projection, bristly hair, stem”), *skag- (“to emerge, stick out, protrude”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kek- (“to jump, move, hurry”).
Akin to Old Norse skegg (“beard”) (compare Danish skæg, Norwegian skjegg, Swedish skägg). Related to shake and shock via the root.
Synonyms
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Scrabble Score: 8
shag is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordshag is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
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