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shaggily

/ʃˈæɡɪli/ adv

In a shaggy manner.

Word Origin Shag comes from Old English sceacga 'matted hair' — a rough, tangled mass. Shaggy means 'having shag, rough-haired,' and shaggily is the adverb: in a shaggy manner. The root gives us shag (the noun and verb), shagginess (the quality), and the comparative forms. You can almost see the unkempt, shaggy dog. So shaggily means in a rough, unkempt way.

adv In a shaggy manner.

The dog shook itself shaggily after coming out of the water.

(副词) 蓬乱地；毛发凌乱地

狗从水里出来后，毛发凌乱地抖动着身子。

(adverbio) De manera desgreñada o hirsuta.

El perro se sacudió de forma desgreñada después de salir del agua.

(adverbe) hirsutement; de manière hirsute; de façon touffue [De manière hirsute ou touffue ; avec des poils longs et emmêlés.]

Le chien s'est secoué shaggily après être sorti de l'eau.

(Adverb) zottelig; struppig [auf eine struppige, zottelige oder ungepflegte Weise.]

Der Hund schüttelte sich **shaggily**, nachdem er aus dem Wasser gekommen war.

(副詞) もじゃもじゃした様子で、ぼさぼさに。

犬は水から上がると、もじゃもじゃした毛をぶるぶる振り払った。

(advérbio) de modo peludo; de maneira desgrenhada; de modo hirsuto [De maneira desgrenhada; de modo peludo.]

O cachorro se sacudiu de forma desgrenhada depois de sair da água.

Synonyms: roughly ruggedly bristly hairy unkemptly coarsely unevenly jaggedly Antonyms: smoothly cleanly neatly trimly
Word parts: shag + y + ly

Related words

shag shaggy shagginess

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