shagged

Meanings

Adjective

• Having or covered with shaggy hair.
• Unkempt; clothed in rags; ragged.
• Of garments and fabrics: having a rough or long nap.
• Covered with scrub, trees, or rough or shaggy growth.
• Jagged; having a rough, uneven surface.
• Of hair: long; rough; shaggy.
• Extremely tired.

Verb

• Past of shag

Origin

• From Old English sceacgede, from sceacga, from Proto-Germanic *skaggiją ("beard, stem"), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kek-, *(s)keg-.
• Origin uncertain. Perhaps related to fagged or to shag. Originally Kentish dialect according to Wright.