Adjective, : a shaggy person. ,a shaggy production of. From Dictionary.com.
Shag rugs are different than most other rugs in that their fiber loops are left intact to create their pile, and that's why they are so soft and have such "shagginess". From Wordnik.com. [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference
They are shaggy, and shagginess is a valuable trait. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862] Reference
It was good to look down at the blue-green shagginess, below. From Wordnik.com. [The Planet Strappers] Reference
He saw only an expanse of low shagginess that might have been scrub growths of any kind. From Wordnik.com. [The Planet Strappers] Reference
The chieftain plucked at his beard, which was full and curly to the point of shagginess. From Wordnik.com. [Bridge of the Separator]
Reviewers of these two books grew increasingly impatient with their archness and shagginess and scale. From Wordnik.com. [Rereading: Vineland by Thomas Pynchon] Reference
Part of the hippie fad, the lank look of long straight hair was harder to obtain than the male's general shagginess. From Wordnik.com. [Futures Imperfect]
Indeed, she's had that haircut since at least since 2009 — before Bieber released a single or understood his potential for shagginess. From Wordnik.com. [Bieber Ringer Explains Her Uncanny Existence] Reference
The spectral appearance of the flower is considerably heightened by the smooth, white, slipper-like lip, which contrasts so forcibly in color and texture with the lurid shagginess around it. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883] Reference
And the velvet of the coat, brilliant with a milky sheen, had here and there a roughness, a scoring, a shagginess on its surface which made one think of the crumpled brightness of the carnations in the vase. From Wordnik.com. [Within a Budding Grove] Reference
It was lonely; for to-day we had not even the pale sunshine to light up the gloomy landscape, and to the east the bleak mountains stood, clear-cut and uniform in shagginess and savagery, against the cold, gray sky. From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
The Beatles have quite a few beasties named after them, the most pertinent being Greeffiella beatlei, a nematode worm identified by S. Lorenzen in 1969 — the worm's shagginess perhaps resembling a Beatle haircut. From Wordnik.com. [Appellation spring] Reference
Where the trunks of the trees were somewhat protected from direct rays of the sun and force of the wind, the bark was smooth, gray and but slightly plated with none of the shagginess typical of open field grown shagbark. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953] Reference
Blond, bearded in varying degrees of shagginess, dressed in rumpled khakis and dirt-grayed jeans, they passed around a thermos full of something that wasn't coffee, joked, smoked, put their feet up on chairs and emitted a collective guffaw that sounded like a beery laugh track. From Wordnik.com. [When The Bough Breaks]
I imagine that most bishops feel shagginess to be embarrassing. From Wordnik.com. [Gossamer 1915] Reference
Hound's head to her breast buried her face in the soft, sweet shagginess. From Wordnik.com. [Peace on Earth, Good-will to Dogs] Reference
Like a drift of snow the huge wolf-hound whirled his white shagginess into the vestibule. From Wordnik.com. [Peace on Earth, Good-will to Dogs] Reference
Andrew knelt down, planted his fingers in the lion shagginess of mane above his ears and said in the French which. From Wordnik.com. [The Mountebank] Reference
The neighbour saw their shagginess and said she was taking her dog in and would make an appointment for all 3 dogs. From Wordnik.com. [Colours of Dawn] Reference
He was of middle height, strong and well-knit, with black hair like a beast's mane for shagginess, and bright blue eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Well at the World's End: a tale] Reference
Small has shaped his narrative without forcing upon it an artificially tidy arc; there's a pleasing shagginess to the way. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
His handsome bearded face, with its lustrous, laughing eyes, peeped out curiously human amid the circumambient shagginess. From Wordnik.com. [The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol] Reference
But Ahab, my Captain, still moves before me in all his Nantucket grimness and shagginess; and in this episode touching Emperors and. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick, or, the whale] Reference
Russell Crowe is back to his Gladiator hunkiness (though if you're like me, you find him hot even in State of Play shagginess), and. From Wordnik.com. [Cinematical] Reference
Those creases in your face can no longer be dismissed as character lines; the shagginess of your eyebrows has the flying years to account for it. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of an Old Fool] Reference
And the falcon-seller, who was thick-set and broad-shouldered, was in truth not unlike a wild-cat in his unkempt shagginess, albeit free from all craft and guile. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
I remember being impressed by the general shagginess of them all - I don't think they were the hairiest band I'd ever seen but they were up there, dreads and all. From Wordnik.com. [Ned Raggett Ponders It All] Reference
In the cold colourlessness they were delicate and feeble as the faces of children, rosy and soft under the splattering of mud and the shagginess of unshaven beards. From Wordnik.com. [One Man's Initiation—1917] Reference
Physically and morally he had in him something both of the Scotch terrier and the London sparrow -- the shagginess of the one, the cocked eye of the other; the one's snarling temper, the other's assured impudence. From Wordnik.com. [The House with the Green Shutters] Reference
Open – and the shagginess of the rough. From Wordnik.com. [Things May Get Rough] Reference
"Let us sit down here quietly for one day and paint a camel's head, not flinching from the work, but mastering the wonderful texture and shagginess of his thick coat or mane, its massive beauty, and its infinite gradations of colour. From Wordnik.com. [Normandy Picturesque] Reference
Of bard-like shagginess shook to the breeze. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 22, 1892] Reference
A gentle shagginess permeates the arboretum. From Wordnik.com. [azcentral.com | news] Reference
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