shag

Etymology 1
From, from , from , , , possibly from.

Akin to 🇨🇬 (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬). Related to and  via the root.

Noun

 * 1) Matted material; rough massed hair, fibres etc.
 * 2) Coarse shredded tobacco.
 * 3) A type of rough carpet pile.
 * 4)  Bacon or fat, especially if with some remaining hair or bristles.
 * 5)  A roughly-cut or torn-off piece of bread or cheese.
 * 6)  A deliberately messy, shaggy hairstyle.
 * 1)  Bacon or fat, especially if with some remaining hair or bristles.
 * 2)  A roughly-cut or torn-off piece of bread or cheese.
 * 3)  A deliberately messy, shaggy hairstyle.
 * 1)  A deliberately messy, shaggy hairstyle.
 * 1)  A deliberately messy, shaggy hairstyle.

Translations

 * Finnish:
 * Greek:
 * Italian:, ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Sicilian:, ,


 * Bulgarian: махо́рка
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French: tabac à rouler
 * Italian:, tabacco grossolano
 * Russian:


 * Finnish:
 * Italian: tappeto a pelo lungo e irregolare

Verb

 * 1)  To make hairy or shaggy; to roughen.
 * 2)  To hang in shaggy clusters.
 * 1)  To hang in shaggy clusters.

Adjective

 * 1)  Hairy; shaggy.

Etymology 2
en. Perhaps a derivative of Etymology 1, above, with reference to the bird's shaggy crest.

Noun

 * 1) Any of several species of sea birds in the family  (cormorant family), especially a  or European shag, found on European and African coasts.

Hypernyms

 * sea bird

Hyponyms

 * blue-eyed shag
 * Guanay shag
 * Leucocarbo nivalis, syn. )
 * imperial shag (, syn. )
 * ( (syn. )
 * New Zealand king shag
 * Leucocarbo nivalis, syn. )
 * imperial shag (, syn. )
 * ( (syn. )
 * New Zealand king shag
 * New Zealand king shag
 * New Zealand king shag

Translations

 * Basque: ubarroi
 * Breton: marvaout, chop, kormoran, chop, kormoran
 * Breton: morvaout
 * Bulgarian: качулат корморан
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Faroese: skarvur
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish: seaga
 * Italian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Maltese: margun tat-toppu
 * Manx: feeagh marrey, hulpin
 * Norman: cormouothan
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: cailleach-dhubh
 * Spanish: cormorán, cormorán moñudo

Etymology 3
From, a variant of 🇨🇬, of origin. Perhaps a byform of 🇨🇬, related to 🇨🇬. Alternatively, perhaps ultimately from, specifically continuing a post-Proto-Germanic variant , where the non-singular stem caused the analogical replacement of the stem-final voiceless geminate consonants with voiced geminates, which was then leveled throughout the paradigm.

Verb

 * 1)  To shake, wiggle around.
 * 2)  To have sex with.
 * 3)  To have sex.
 * 4)  To masturbate.
 * 5) To chase after; especially, to chase after and return (a ball) hit usually out of play.
 * 6)  To perform the dance called the shag.
 * 1)  To have sex.
 * 2)  To masturbate.
 * 3) To chase after; especially, to chase after and return (a ball) hit usually out of play.
 * 4)  To perform the dance called the shag.
 * 1)  To masturbate.
 * 2) To chase after; especially, to chase after and return (a ball) hit usually out of play.
 * 3)  To perform the dance called the shag.
 * 1)  To perform the dance called the shag.
 * 1)  To perform the dance called the shag.
 * 1)  To perform the dance called the shag.

Translations

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Italian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Swedish:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: nikkuma
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:, , ,
 * Lithuanian: dulkintis
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Thai: ,
 * Uzbek: qoqish
 * Vietnamese: quan hệ tình dục


 * Italian:, , stare alle calcagna
 * Russian:

Noun

 * 1)  A swing dance.
 * 2)  An act of sex.
 * 3)  A casual sexual partner.
 * 1)  A casual sexual partner.
 * 1)  A casual sexual partner.
 * 1)  A casual sexual partner.
 * 1)  A casual sexual partner.
 * 1)  A casual sexual partner.
 * 1)  A casual sexual partner.

Translations

 * Finnish:
 * Russian: шэг


 * Dutch:
 * Faroese: mogg, lítið, putt, nipp, hopp, nummar
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian: knull
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German: Fickpartner, Fickpartnerin,
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: тра́халь,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,

Etymology 4
.

Noun

 * 1)  A fundraising dance in honour of a couple engaged to be married.

Etymology 5
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Noun

 * 1)  Friend; mate; buddy.

Synonyms

 * See Thesaurus:friend

Etymology 6
From or.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) coarse linen fabric spread on the floor

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  coarse shredded tobacco