The shaggy domes, each about ten feet across, are built from cut branches and sealed with mud.
Squeeze the topping into shaggy chunks and scatter over the apricots.
The edges were frayed, which made the mane authentically shaggy.
shaggy gray hair, with a bald spot at the back of her skull.
If not exactly a deliberate swindle, it is an endlessly repeated put-on, a shaggy-dog story without a punch line.
And it was so great taking her with that big mop of shaggy, hippie hair that she has.
Their long shaggy hair protects them from the cold winters and rainy weather.
One is a thick, shaggy coat that protects them in winter and falls away as seasons change and temperatures rise.
The muskox's shaggy outer coat covers everything but its feet.
Then you see a stipple of gray: a herd of sheep, watched by a shepherd on a shaggy-maned horse.
British Dictionary definitions for shaggy
shaggy
/ˈʃæɡɪ/
adjective -gier, -giest
1.
having or covered with rough unkempt fur, hair, wool, etc: a shaggy dog
2.
rough or unkempt
3.
(in textiles) having a nap of long rough strands
Derived Forms
shaggily, adverb shagginess, noun
Word Origin and History for shaggy
adj.
"rough, coarse, unkempt," 1590s, from shag (n.) + -y (2). Related: Shaggily; shagginess. Earlier was shagged, from Old English sceacgede "hairy;" cf. Old Norse skeggjaðr, Danish skægget "bearded." The shaggy-dog story as a type of joke is attested from 1944, perhaps from vaudeville.