shagging
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Verb
[edit]shagging
- present participle and gerund of shag
- 2025 May 11, Monica Padrick, “Don Tyxote” (15:59 from the start), in Krapopolis[1], season 2, episode 21, spoken by Deliria (Hannah Waddingham):
- “Ha! Shagging a chair is quite odd.” “Its legs were very sexy. And I know how you are, so I expected a challenge. What did you turn into anyway?” “Oh, the dowdiest mortal woman. You should have seen it.” “Oh, I would have been all over that.” “I know!”
Noun
[edit]shagging (usually uncountable, plural shaggings)
- (UK, vulgar, slang) An act (or acts) of sexual intercourse.
- 2007, Martina Reisz Newberry, Hunger (page 28): Insomnia (poem)
- Well, you'll do what you want,
but I'll tell you this:
one of the best shaggings I ever had
was with an overweight housepainter
who bought me a beer and a hamburger and,
the next week, painted my kitchen for free.
- Well, you'll do what you want,
- 2007, Martina Reisz Newberry, Hunger (page 28): Insomnia (poem)
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[edit]shagging