shaggy

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  1. adjective Having, covered with, or resembling long rough hair or wool.
  2. adjective Bushy or matted: shaggy hair.
  3. adjective Having a rough nap or surface, as a textile.

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  • Their formerly sleek coats were rough and shaggy, as would be natural for beasts native to the subarctic. —  Julian, May - Boreal Moon 01 - Conqueror's Moon
  • His pale hair was shaggy, and his eyes looked at you with irises the color of blood. —  Dozois, Gardner ; Strahan, Jonathan - SSC - The New Space Opera (v1.0)
  • Within an hour I was introduced to a rumpled, shaggy, and bespectacled transfer student, who, I was told, whiled away most of his days in the well-equipped photography lab. —  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Winston had several predecessors, but they all looked like the same one: grey, shaggy, and feathery of tail Then Qwilleran went home to the barn to work on his address for the literary club. —  THE CAT WHO WENT BANANAS
  • The recent death of Mark Fidrych, the beloved Bird of 1976, brought out endless stories of his whimsy and delightful pictures of him as a shaggy-haired 21-year-old grooming the grass around a pitcher's mound, as if he were a child picking flowers for a family picnic rather than a dominant athlete in his prime. —  Sports News : CBSSports.com
 

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  1. = Swedish skäggig, shaggy; as shag + -y.
 

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/ˈʃægi/
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