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Shaggy-haired   /ʃˈægi-hɛrd/   Listen
Shaggy-haired

adjective
1.
Used of hair; thick and poorly groomed.  Synonyms: bushy, shaggy, shaggy-coated.  "A shaggy beard"






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"Shaggy-haired" Quotes from Famous Books



... who were wont to esteem Your God all rough, and shaggy-haired to be; And yet far wiser shepherds than ye deem, For who so poor (though who so rich) as he, When sojourning with us in low degree, He washed his flocks in Jordan's spotless tide; And that his dear remembrance ...
— Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete • George Gilfillan

... The shaggy-haired one fairly gloated in his triumph. "Number One!" he hissed, raising a forefinger in token that de Vaudrey—the first of his Trinity of Hate—was in the net. "Two and Three shall come next!" he whispered savagely, knuckling ...
— Orphans of the Storm • Henry MacMahon

... was a revolting one to the child, and she was turning to leave the spot, with one last look at the hut, when she perceived the old woman who had so often before arrested her attention, outside the door, and Archie himself near her, while a shaggy-haired man, with a pipe in his mouth sauntered back and forth in front of the house, occasionally stopping to address himself to one or the other of his companions. Kittie bestowed but a passing glance upon the woman and the man, and bent her fixed ...
— The Elm Tree Tales • F. Irene Burge Smith

... had brought two shaggy-haired animals around to the door of the warehouse. Hoddan later learned that they were horses. He was frenziedly in the act of mounting one of them. As he climbed up, small bright metal disks cascaded from a pocket. ...
— The Pirates of Ersatz • Murray Leinster

... on the end of it. The horses, which are harnessed with ropes in shafts, are wiry, shaggy-looking animals, and have high wooden bows arched over their heads, with the idea of keeping them from stumbling. The drivers are no less strange to English eyes than their vehicles. They are long-bearded, shaggy-haired, keen-eyed men, with low-crowned, broad-curling brimmed hats, wider at the top than at the head. They wear long blue cloth coats, crossed at the breast, and fastened round the waist with a red cotton sash. Their wide trousers ...
— Fred Markham in Russia - The Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar • W. H. G. Kingston



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