English Explanatory Dictionary

shag

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Matted material; rough massed hair, fibres etc.
  2. Coarse shredded tobacco.
  3. A type of rough carpet pile.
  4. Bacon or fat, especially if with some remaining hair or bristles.
  5. A roughly-cut or torn-off piece of bread or cheese.
  6. A deliberately messy, shaggy hairstyle.
verb
  1. To make hairy or shaggy; to roughen.
  2. To hang in shaggy clusters.
adj
  1. Hairy; shaggy.
noun
  1. 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.
verb
  1. To shake, wiggle around.
  2. To have sex with.
  3. To have sex.
  4. To masturbate.
  5. To chase after; especially, to chase after and return (a ball) hit usually out of play.
  6. To perform the dance called the shag.
noun
  1. A swing dance.
  2. An act of sex.
  3. A casual sexual partner.
noun
  1. A fundraising dance in honour of a couple engaged to be married.
noun
  1. Friend; mate; buddy.
adj
  1. Exhausted, worn out, extremely tired.
  2. Tough and exhausting.

Pronunciation

/ˈʃæɡ/ /ˈʃeɪ̯ɡ/ En-au-shag.ogg

Word forms

shag shags shagging shagged more shag most shag shack

Etymology

Etymology tree Old English sċeacga Middle English *schagge English shag 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

shaggy cut jiggle rock tremble quake shag shake vibrate wiggle Formal terms bed coit coitize dight enjoy feague go in unto go to bed with have know lie by lie with love mount occupy penetrate season seduce sleep with take Any of Thesaurus:copulate + "with" Informal and slang terms ball bang bauf beep be with bone boff boink bonk boom-boom dick diddle dig out do doink drill eff expletive deleted fill frack frak frick frig fuck get into someone's pants get over on get up in give someone one

Related words

shag-boy

Derived words

raise someone's shag shagbark shagger shagginess shaggy shaggy-dog story shaglike shagpile shag-rag silk shag like a shag on a rock shaglet shaggable gangshag shagadelic shagaholic Shagaluf shag band shag bandit shagfest shag-hound shagless shag monster shagtastic shag wagon strat shag

Translations

Chinese Mandarin: 幹 /干 Chinese Mandarin: 搞 Dutch: wippen Estonian: nikkuma Finnish: panna French: sauter French: baiser German: bumsen German: ficken Italian: scopare Italian: chiavare Japanese: エッチする Japanese: 犯す Japanese: ファックする Japanese: やる Lithuanian: dulkintis Norwegian: knulle Polish: pieprzyć się Portuguese: comer Russian: тра́хать Serbo-Croatian: kresnuti Spanish: joder Swedish: knulla Swedish: ligga Thai: เย็ด Thai: ร่วมเพศ Uzbek: qoqish Vietnamese: quan hệ tình dục Welsh: sielffo
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