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[shag-ee] / ˈʃæg i /


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And one might even trace today’s would-be Rhaena Targaryens — and Daenerys emulators, we know you’re out there — to that shaggy flying dog.

From Salon Jun. 24, 2026

They can grow to the size of a medium dog and have shaggy black hair, making them look like large dust mops.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 17, 2026

It’s loose and playful, which would seem to be a plus, but it’s too shaggy and imprecise to land, and sometimes seems as if it were made up on the spot.

From The Wall Street Journal May 19, 2026

Giant anteaters have black and white diagonal stripes, dense shaggy hair and super-sized snouts.

From BBC Apr. 1, 2026

The Wallace who came out of the creek, drenched in too-short jeans, a too-tight shirt, with shaggy unkempt hair and fingernails that were about two feet long, was twenty-three years old.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles

Although Fredo, who was born in Estonia, bears some resemblance to an African leopard, Mr Mee said he is a "little taller with longer legs and a shaggier face".

From BBC Nov. 17, 2023

It’s bigger, shaggier and a bit messier than its predecessor, and while it bears other fun similarities to “Scream 2,” mentioning more ventures into spoiler territory.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 8, 2023

During the pandemic, he has traded his Washington-based policy wonk look with a trimmed beard and buzzed hair for a shaggier and scruffier look to fit a Colorado mountain man.

From Washington Post Jan. 8, 2021

The final incarnation of Chewie was simultaneously shaggier and sleeker than seen here, with a more plume- and mane-like headpiece.

From New York Times Nov. 25, 2018

A little shaggier, a little older, still energetically mad, he looked at the woman hurrying along the road with the sunset in her face.

From "Sula" by Toni Morrison

But the actors turned writer-directors have done their homework, setting up a “Friday the 13th” riff with a dash of “Wet Hot American Summer” that jokes its way through its shaggiest corners.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 13, 2023

Bobby’s hair had grown longer every year of the 1960s; now, at forty-two, he had the shaggiest hair in the United States Senate.

From MSNBC Nov. 7, 2017

The angriest and shaggiest man between the horizon and the nearest dust cloud is a fellow named Eric, played by Guy Pearce.

From New York Times Jun. 12, 2014

If the answer was Andrea Zuckerman, the shaggiest of the 90210 girls, that meant you had some work to do in the coming weeks.

From Slate Feb. 19, 2013

Looking out, she saw the cutest, shaggiest little pony standing on her front lawn!

From "Pony Problems: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #3" by Carolyn Keene




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