Definition of Shagging

1. Verb. (present participle of shag) ¹

2. Noun. (UK vulgar slang) an act of sexual intercourse ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Shagging

1. shag [v] - See also: shag

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shagging

shagbark hickory
shagbarks
shagged
shaggedness
shagger
shaggers
shaggier
shaggiest
shaggily
shagginess
shagginesses
shaggings
shaggy
shaggy-dog stories
shaggy-dog story
shaggy aorta
shaggy cap
shaggy chorion
shaggy dog stories
shaggy dog story
shaggy heart
shaggy kinase
shaggy pericardium
shaggymane
shaggymane mushroom

Literary usage of Shagging

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Trees in Winter: Their Study, Planting, Care and Identification by Albert Francis Blakeslee, Chester Deacon Jarvis (1913)
"COMPARISON'S—The Shag-bark Hickory is distinguished from other trees by the distinct shagging of its bark. The bark especially of one variety of the Pignut ..."

2. Studies of Trees in Winter: A Description of the Deciduous Trees of by Annie Oakes Huntington (1902)
"The rough bark shagging off in curving plates, and the buds with the same shagging, curving outer scales are the distinctive characteristics of the shagbark ..."

3. English Literature: An Illustrated Record by Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse (1905)
"... literary person who appeared in Edinburgh, and where, behind his counter, he broke into verse at the least excuse, " e'en at the shagging of a feather. ..."

4. The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries by John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Henry Phelps Johnston, Martha Joanna Lamb, Nathan Gillett Pond, William Abbatt (1878)
"... My Pegasus wad break his tether, E'en at the shagging of a feather, And throw ideas scour like drift, Streaking his wings up to the lift. ..."

5. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1894)
"... and not a tree or bush to give any sign of life, but the fringe of the dominant black weed, like heavy brows, shagging the outlook. ..."

6. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines: Containing a Clear Exposition by Andrew Ure (1844)
"... in the double bolt machine, has an occasional lateral movement called shagging, equal to the interval of one tooth or bolt, by which, ..."

7. A Library of Poetry and Song: Being Choice Selections from the Best Poets by William Cullen Bryant (1874)
"Now it is death in life, — a vapor dense Creeps round my window, till I cannot see The far snow-shining mountains, and the glens shagging the mountain tops. ..."

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