shag
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[edit] Etymology 1
Old English sceacga, akin to Old Norse skegg, beard (compare Danish skæg, spelling before the writing reform of 1948: skjæg, Norwegian skjegg, Swedish skägg), from Old Norse skaga, to protrude.
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shag (plural shags)
- Matted material; rough massed hair, fibres etc.
- Coarse shredded tobacco.
- A type of rough carpet pile.
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[edit] Etymology 2
Perhaps a derivative of Etymology 1, above, with reference to the bird's shaggy crest.
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shag (plural shags)
- A type of cormorant, Phalacrocorax aristotelis, found on European and African coasts.
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- Auckland Shag
- Bounty Shag
- Campbell Shag
- Chatham Shag
- Heard Shag
- Imperial Shag
- Kerguelen Shag
- King Shag
- Macquarie Shag
- Stewart Island Shag
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[edit] Etymology 3
Origin unknown.
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to shag (third-person singular simple present shags, present participle shagging, simple past and past participle shagged)
- (intransitive) To shake, wiggle around.
- (British, transitive) (slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
- To chase after; especially : to chase after and return (a ball) hit usually out of play
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shag (plural shags)
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[edit] Etymology 4
Blend of shower (“‘bridal shower’”) and stag (“‘bachelor party’”).
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shag (plural shags)
- (Canadian, Northwestern Ontario) A fundraising dance in honour of a couple engaged to be married.
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- stag and doe, stag and doe party (Canada, Ontario)
- social, wedding social (Canada, Prairies)
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- “shag” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.
