Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To make hairy or shaggy; to roughen. · To hang in shaggy clusters.
Matted material; rough massed hair, fibres etc. · Coarse shredded tobacco. · A type of rough carpet pile. · Bacon or fat, especially if with some remaining hair or bristles.
Hairy; shaggy.
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.
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