shagged

UK: /ʃægd/ US: (shagd)

From the verb shag: (⇒ conjugate)

shagged is: ⓘ

v past

v past p

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shagged  (shagd), adj. 

1. Informal Terms weary;
   exhausted (usually fol. by out):
   They were completely shagged out from the long trip.

• origin, originally uncertain 1930–35

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shag¹ /ʃæg/   n. 

1. [uncountable] rough, matted hair, wool, etc.
2. Clothing [countable] a hairstyle in which the hair is cut in layers downward from the crown.
3. Textiles [countable] a kind of carpeting or rug with long, loose yarns.

shag⁴ /ʃæg/   v. [~ + object] , shagged, shag•ging. 

1. to go after and bring back;
   fetch.
2. Sport to retrieve and throw back (fly balls) in batting practice.

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shag¹  (shag), n., v., shagged, shag•ging. 
n. 

1. rough, matted hair, wool, or the like.
2. a mass of this.
3. Clothing a hairdo in which hair is cut in slightly uneven, overlapping layers downward from the crown, sometimes with the hair at the front and back hairlines left longer or wispier than the rest.
4. Textiles a cloth with a nap, as of silk or a heavy or rough woolen fabric.
5. Textiles a rug or carpet with a thick, shaggy pile.
6. a coarse tobacco cut into fine shreds.

v.t., v.i. 

7. to make or become rough or shaggy.

• bef. 1050; Old English sceacga (wooly) hair (not recorded in Middle English); cognate with Old Norse skegg beard; akin to shaw

shag′like′, adj. 

shag²  (shag), n. 

1. Birds a small cormorant, Phalacrocorax aristotelis, of European coasts.
2. Birds any of several small cormorants of the Southern Hemisphere.

• perh. special use of shag¹, applied first to bird's crest 1560–70

shag³  (shag), v., shagged, shag•ging, n. 
v.i. 

1. to dance a step with a vigorous hopping on each foot.

n. 

2. this dance step.

• perh. variant of shog 1350–1400

shag⁴  (shag), v.t., shagged, shag•ging. 

1. to chase or follow after;
   pursue.
2. to go after and bring back;
   fetch.
3. Sport [Baseball.] to retrieve and throw back (fly balls) in batting practice.
4. shag ass, Slang (vulgar). to depart, esp. hurriedly;
   get going.

• 1930–35; origin, originally uncertain; see shack²

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shag / ʃæɡ/ noun

1. a matted tangle, esp of hair, wool, etc
2. a napped fabric, usually a rough wool
3. shredded coarse tobacco

Etymology: Old English sceacga; related to sceaga shaw¹, Old Norse skegg beard, skagi tip, skōgr forest

shag / ʃæɡ/ noun

1. a cormorant, esp the green cormorant (Phalacrocorax aristotelis)
2. like a shag on a rock ⇒ abandoned and alone

Etymology: 16th Century: special use of shag¹, with reference to its crest

shag / ʃæɡ/ verb (shags, shagging, shagged)

1. to have sexual intercourse (with)
2. (transitive) often followed by out; usually passive: to exhaust; tire

noun

1. an act of sexual intercourse

Etymology: 20th Century: of unknown origin