What's the difference between shag and shagginess?

Shag


Definition:

  • (n.) Coarse hair or nap; rough, woolly hair.
  • (n.) A kind of cloth having a long, coarse nap.
  • (n.) A kind of prepared tobacco cut fine.
  • (n.) Any species of cormorant.
  • (a.) Hairy; shaggy.
  • (v. t.) To make hairy or shaggy; hence, to make rough.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Because people didn't see me falling out of clubs or shagging in the alleys with different girls every week, they thought something was wrong with me.
  • (2) This is a guy whose last feature, Trash Humpers , was 80 minutes of old people shagging foliage.
  • (3) Voteman aims to get young people voting by slapping them around the chops, decapitating them, or simply hurling them into the voting booth like the shagging, lazy slackers they are.
  • (4) It's the difference between a quick shag and an all-night lovemaking session!"
  • (5) The movie was shot last year during a real spring break in St Petersburg, Florida, amid the kind of week-long teen chaos – motels on fire, pools filled with furniture, kids shagging in the street – that it takes a resort town a year to recover from.
  • (6) During Friday's hearing, White referred to an email she sent to a newspaper providing a tip about Nick Clegg's sex life, known as the "18 shags story" and said "it suggests something about her attitude".
  • (7) The relatively low activity of these enzymes is probably the main reason why the shag has been found to contain relatively high levels of dieldrin in ecological studies.
  • (8) "A shag", Ferdinand explained when asked what the gesture meant.
  • (9) I didn't look like I was supposed to because I'd been Barbarella and now I had this short, brown shag that became famous in Klute.
  • (10) You shagged your team-mate's missus, you're a cunt."
  • (11) A sports commentator was cut loose from his radio station this week for sending a tweet that read: "To all fellow women journalists: shag wisely, you could become the next first lady of France."
  • (12) We shouldn’t beat ourselves up about one-night stands or walks of shame.” The idea of your 20s as a carefree period before a woman starts her “real” life of monogamy and child-bearing is not a new one: see the end of John Cleland’s Memoirs of A Woman of Pleasure , published in 1748, where 300 pages of masturbation, orgies and lesbianism are followed by a “tail-piece of morality”, and protagonist Fanny Hill explains that she is much happier now she’s put all that filthy shagging behind her.
  • (13) Scattering out around the goals and small pitches informal games are played in mixed groups as pretty much every kid here takes a turn to demonstrate their range of tricks, traps and flicks on that wondrous green shag.
  • (14) She also caused some offence in 2005 when she suggested on air, in the wake of revelations about John Prescott's extra-marital activities, that his nickname should be changed from "two jags" to "two shags".
  • (15) Women comedians are probably not looking for shags in any case; if they were, they probably couldn't say so.
  • (16) Avon: "If your mate just gives us the bird he was shagging - was she a bird in Buckingham Palace?"
  • (17) "You shagged your team-mate's missus, you're the cunt."
  • (18) However, "continuing dramas" can't all be about shagging and hotpot (brilliant though that sounds).
  • (19) Hatchet was subjected to virulent internet abuse, some fans at United games sang songs naming and abusing his victim and declaring that Evans would “shag who he wants”.
  • (20) Liver microsomes of the shag showed smaller than 8% of the epoxide hydrase activity and smaller than 14% of the hydroxylating capacity of liver microsomes from the rat.

Shagginess


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of being shaggy; roughness; shaggedness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is clear the teenagers – including Pickles – love Matthew Burton, one of the school's assistant heads, who, with his skinny-fitting suit, brown brogues, shaggy hair and loose floral tie, looks more like the singer in an indie group than an English teacher.
  • (2) The most characteristic feature, seen in 93% of the cases, was shaggy deposition of fibrinogen along the basement membrane.
  • (3) Pony trekking in Glenshiel Think soft velvety noses, shaggy mains, the heady smell of saddle soap and the reassuring squeak of leather as you saddle up for a trek into the mountains on a sturdy, sure-footed Highland pony.
  • (4) Fold thickening evolved into fold effacement with a shaggy contour in two patients with viral infection.
  • (5) In the glow of the thing's own flame they saw edificial flanks, the concrete and rust of them, the iron of the pylon barnacled, shaggy with benthic growth now lank gelatinous bunting.
  • (6) "Shaggy" echoes recorded from the aortic leaflets in diastole as well as irregular diastolic densities in the left ventricular outflow tract suggested flail aortic leaflets secondary to bacterial endocarditis.
  • (7) Now father to a one-year-old boy, with singer Mariqueen Maandig, Reznor wears jeans, a hoodie and a shaggy, stay-at-home beard, although he still dyes his hair raven-black.
  • (8) Jon Stewart is back as host of The Daily Show, and the shaggy beard he grew over the summer is gone.
  • (9) The development of supernumerary bristle precursors induced by the mutation shaggy (sgg; also known as zeste-white 3) was examined in the developing wing blade of imaginal and pupal Drosophila.
  • (10) When we meet he is sporting a shaggy beard and offers a forthright view.
  • (11) "They compliment your earrings," cooed the reporter, who also noticed a "thin, shaggy-haired employee … skipping as he worked".
  • (12) The thrombus surface had a shaggy appearance, and were dark (charring), or mixed dark and white in color.
  • (13) At the time he was posing as New Age healer Dr Dragan Dabic , and was disguised by a thick beard and shaggy hair.
  • (14) Paralysis does not occur in immunosuppressed mice, which develop a shaggy hair and eventually lose weight and die.
  • (15) [LAUGH] Your shaggy limbs and the bristling hair on your forearms Suggest a fierce male virtue [CHUCKLE]; but the surgeon called in to lance your swollen piles [BIG LAUGH] dissolves in laughter [GURGLE] at the sight of that well-smoothed passage [ROAR].
  • (16) Barium contrast studies of the colon demonstrated irregular shaggy mucosa, ulcerations, cobblestone appearance, and thumb printing.
  • (17) CT scan demonstrated a distended gallbladder with thick shaggy walls which contained a 2 cm gallstone in the neck and also revealed dextrocardia and situs inversus.
  • (18) Here, we report that the segment polarity gene zeste-white 3 (zw3; also known as shaggy) acts as a repressor of en autoregulation.
  • (19) Coles’s brother, a former member of the Communards who later became a priest , wrote in his 2014 autobiography that his older sibling’s double life involved infiltrating “some sinister organisation while his wife and baby daughter made do with unpredictable visits … He looked like he had just walked out of the woods, his hair long and shaggy, with a straggly beard, his ears rattling with piercings.” Coles disappeared from the animal rights movement in 1995, telling activists that he was moving to eastern Europe to teach English.
  • (20) The clinical and light microscopic findings in this case are similar to those previously described of a shaggy, parakeratin-covered, pebbly, or verrucous surface and elongated rete pegs which extend a uniform depth into the underlying conncetive tissue.

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