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Definition: Shag |
ShagNoun1. A strong coarse tobacco that has been shredded. 2. A matted tangle of hair or fiber; "the dog's woolly shag". 3. A fabric with long coarse nap; "he bought a shag rug". 4. Slang terms for sexual intercourse. 5. A lively dance step consisting of hopping on each foot in turn. Verb1. Do the shag. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "shag" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | A primitive, more or less unregulated method of cyclical cultivation, still widely practised in the tropics, whereby cultivators cut some or all of the tree crop, burn it, and raise agricultural crops for one or more years before moving on to another site and repeating the process. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | Ordinary napped cloth. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Common Shag , Phalacrocorax aristotelis, is a member of the cormorant family of seabirds. It breeds around the coasts of western and southern Europe and north Africa, mainly wintering in its breeding range except for northernmost birds. In Britain it is usually referred to as the Shag; in scientific literature it is sometimes called the European Shag.
Common Shag Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Pelecaniformes Family: Phalacrocoracidae Genus: Phalacrocorax Species: aristotelis Binomial name Phalacrocorax aristotelis It breeds mainly on coasts, nesting in crevices or small caves. 3 eggs are laid in a nest of seaweed or twigs.
This is a large black bird, with a longish tail and yellow throat-patch. Adults have a small crest in the breeding season. It is distinguished from the Great Cormorant by its smaller size, lighter build, thinner bill, and, in breeding adults, by the crest and green-tinged plumage.
It feeds on the sea, and unlike Great Cormorant, is rare inland. It will winter along any coast that is well-supplied with fish.
The Shag is one of the deepest divers among the cormorant family. Using depth gauges, Shags have been shown to dive to at least 45 metres. They are preponderantly benthic feediers, i.e. they find their prey on the sea bottom. They will eat a wide range of fish but their commonest prey is the sand eel. Shags will travel many kilometres from their roosting sites in order to feed. In UK coastal waters, dive times are typically around 45 seconds, with a recovery time of around 15 seconds between dives; this is consistent with aerobic diving, i.e. the bird depends on the oxygen in its lungs and dissolved in its bloodstream during the dive.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Common Shag."
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Disambiguation:Shag is a slang for term having sex in British English.
Shag is a form of swing dance. The two most common variations are the Carolina Shag and the Collegiate Shag.
Shag is the name for some birds of the cormorant family. Originally used for the European or Common Shag Phalcrocorax aristotelis, it is now used for most cormorants in New Zealand, and is likely to be used for any bird in the family that has a crest.
Shag refers to the pile of a carpet
Shaggy means having long, especially untidy, hair or fur.
A Shaggy dog story is an improbable tale.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Shag."
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Shag is an early dance, contemporary with Lindy hop.
Moves
Shag (from lead's point of view) usually the lead's left hand is up and the lead's left elbow touches the follow's right elbow. Follow usually mirrors the leads footwork in closed position.
Basic: (left, left, right, right, left, right)
Circle Kicks: (like basic, but up foot moves in a circle)
Camel Kicks: (side by side) kick left, step left, kick right, step right, step left (replace), step right (replace). Follows should not mirror the lead in closed, but rather match in a different way.
Hop and Hold: (left hold right hold left right)
Girl Spin: The girl can do overhead, free, or apache turns on the slows or the fasts.
Guy spin:
See Also
Lindy hop
Dance move
To Do
Shag with promenade hands behind back and half spins.
double kicks.
Scissors.
kick tap, kick tap, kick kick.
Circling in shag.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Shag (dance move)."
Synonyms: ShagSynonyms: ass (n), fuck (n), fucking (n), nookie (n), nooky (n), piece of ass (n), roll in the hay (n), screw (n), screwing (n), shtup (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Roughness | Brush, hair, beard, shag, mane, whisker, moustache, imperial, tress, lock, curl, ringlet; fimbriae, pili, cilia, villi; lovelock; beaucatcher; curl paper; goatee; papillote, scalp lock. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Shag |
| English words defined with "shag": Cappadine ♦ rya, rya rug ♦ Shagging, Skart ♦ Velveting. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "shag": CHURCH WARDEN ♦ panne. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Shag" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (shag), Manx (cormorant, shag), Portuguese (shag). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I've been desperate for a shag but watching him suffer was just too much fun (Trainspotting; writing credit: Irvine Welsh; John Hodge) Should we shag now or should we shag later (Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery; writing credit: Mike Myers) You'll be in love till it kills you both. You'll fight, you'll shag and you'll hate each other till it makes you quiver, but you'll never be friends (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) I need a shag. (This Life; writing credit: Joe Ahearne; Amelia Bullmore) Take me to a place where the drugs are free, the clubs have no gravity and every shag guarantees an orgasm (Human Traffic; writing credit: Justin Kerrigan) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Reshayushchij shag (1966) Shag (1989) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Tending tide gauge at Shag Rock Party off of HODGSON. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Shag Shaughnessy. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia, Can" by Geoff Hartman Commentary: "This is a shot of an old fisherman's boat that washed up on the shore near the house in which I grew up in Shag Harbour, NS." |
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Health | Although shag carpets are the worst type for the dust mite-sensitive person, all carpets trap dust and make dust control impossible. (references) | |
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| "Shag" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 51.69% of the time. "Shag" is used about 89 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 51.69% | 46 | 50,285 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 29.21% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 17.98% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Noun (common) | 1.12% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 89 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "shag": shag off ♦ shag rug ♦ silk shag. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "shag": Shag-haired, shag-mental, shag-pile, Shag-rag. | |
Ending with "shag": rock-shag. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
shag | 416 | leather rug shag | 16 |
shag hair style | 360 | cut hair shag style | 15 |
shag hair cut | 253 | shag carpeting | 14 |
shag rug | 191 | cut hair shag short | 14 |
shag carpet | 90 | hair layered shag style | 13 |
the art of shag | 52 | artist shag | 12 |
cut hair picture shag | 48 | dance shag steps | 12 |
shag the movie | 43 | harbor shag | 12 |
shag dance | 40 | cut shag | 12 |
shag hair | 39 | club shag | 11 |
shag area rug | 35 | print shag | 10 |
shag music | 31 | hair photo shag style | 10 |
shag dancing | 31 | cut hair layered shag | 10 |
2000 cut hair picture shag | 28 | lesson shag | 10 |
hair picture shag style | 26 | mail shag | 10 |
shag bag | 24 | shag up | 10 |
long shag hair style | 20 | bali shag | 9 |
hair shag short style | 18 | layered shag | 9 |
long shag hair cut | 18 | carpet red shag | 8 |
gag shag | 17 | hair shag tutorial | 8 |
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| Language | Translations for "shag"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | xhufkë (aigrette, crest, plume, pompon, tassel, thrum, topknot, toupee, tuft), duhan shumë i fortë. (various references) | |
Arabic | نكح (ride, screw, sex, shaft), نوع من التبغ القوي, قماش صوفى خشن, قطع الكرة (save), سجاد طويل, شعر أشعث (tousle). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | чорлава коса, имам полови отношения с (sleep together, sleep with), прогонвам (clear out, dispel, drive away, exorcise, exorcize, run off, see off, shoo, shut away), несресан (shaggy, uncombed, undressed, unkempt), вися на рошави кичури, гоня (badger, chivy, drive, follow, keep away, persecute, prey upon, prosecute, pursue, push, run, run after, victimize), дяволица, шаяк (baize, frieze, russet), ситно нарязан тютюн, разрошвам (dishevel, rough up, ruffle, tousle), рошав (brushy, ragged, rough, scraggly, scraggy, shaggy, towheaded, unkempt), рошава козина, рошава коса (fleece, mop), рунтав (bushy, fleecy, ragged, rough, scraggly, shaggy, thick), рунтава козина, космат (barbate, hairy, hirsute, shaggy). (various references) | |
Chinese | 粗毛. (various references) | |
Czech | zarùst (close up, overgrow). (various references) | |
Danish | svedjebrug (Ash farming, Burn-beating, Burning, nomadic cropping, roving agriculture, shifting agriculture, shifting cultivation), shag, topskarv, flyttemarksbrug (nomadic cropping, roving agriculture, shifting agriculture, shifting cultivation). (various references) | |
Dutch | shag, scaferlati, ladangsysteem (nomadic cropping, roving agriculture, shifting agriculture, shifting cultivation), kuifaalscholver. (various references) | |
Finnish | shag, takku. (various references) | |
French | shag, scaferlati, toison, tapis à longues mèches, tabac très fort, récupérer, laine à longues mèches, culture itinérante (shifting agriculture, shifting cultivation), cormoran huppé, baiser. (various references) | |
German | shag, krähenscharbe. (various references) | |
Greek | θαλασσοκόρακας. (various references) | |
Hungarian | bozont (bush). (various references) | |
Italian | shag, scopare (sweep), trinciato, tabacco grossolano, marangone dal ciuffo, marangone col ciuffo, cormorano (cormorant), coltura itinerante (nomadic cropping, roving agriculture, shifting agriculture, shifting cultivation), agricoltura vagante (nomadic cropping, roving agriculture, shifting agriculture, shifting cultivation). (various references) | |
Korean | 거친 털. (various references) | |
Manx | shag (cormorant), hulpin (immature cormorant), feeagh marrey. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | agshay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | shag, tabaco picado, rimo, pelúcia (plush), guedelha, grenha, cultura itinerante (nomadic cropping, roving agriculture, shifting agriculture, shifting cultivation), corvo-marinho de crista, corvo marinho de crista, cabelo emaranhado. (various references) | |
Romanian | stofã pãroasã, tutun (baccy, snuff, tobacco, tobacco plant), pãr aspru, mahorcã (tobacco), loden, cormoran (cormorant). (various references) | |
Russian | шевелюра, взлохмачивать....лохматая грива. (various references) | |
Scottish | pab, caitean (nap of cloth, ruffled surface). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vlakno na suknu, ruta (rue), pliš (plush), fino rezani duvan, čuperak (cowlick, forelock, shock, topknot, tuft, tussock, wisp). (various references) | |
Spanish | picadura (bite, Peck, pit, pock, prick, sting), cormorán moñudo. (various references) | |
Swedish | svedjebruk (burn-beating), shagtobak, ragg (goat's hair), päls (fleece, fur, fur coat, fur-coat, hide, pelt, skin), lurvig (brushy, hirsute, rough, shaggy). (various references) | |
Thai | ทำให้หยาบ (roughen), การร่วมเพศ (bunk-up, rogering, sex, shafting), ขนหรือผมหยาบ. (various references) | |
Turkish | sevişmek (bang, bill, have sex, jump, lay, lie with, make love, pet, sleep with), tepeli karabatak, kaba tüylü yapmak, kaba tüylü kumaş, kaba tüy, ince kıyılmış sert tütün, cinsel ilişkiye girmek (have a screw, have sex, hump, jazz, lie with, sleep with). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | кошлата шевелюра, густі зарості, махорка. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | chòm lông. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Phalacrocorax aristotelis, RM:cormoran da la cresta. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | sceacga. (various references) |
| Middle French | 1400-1600 | pluche. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "shag": shagbark, shagbarks, shagged, shaggier, shaggiest, shaggily, shagginess, shagginesses, shagging, shaggy, shaggymane, shaggymanes, shagreen, shagreens, shags. (additional references) | |
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"Shag" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bhag, Dschang, Esha, Eshaq, Hssag, Osha, Oshige, Sahgal, sahha, Sahng, sbag, scag, sgah, sha, Shaab, shaat, shaf, shagg, shagt, shagy, shai, shang, shaq, sharg, shaz, sheb, sheg, shej, Shiego, shig, shog, shsa, shtg, Shuaghr, shuang, siag, Siha, smag, Sohag, spag, sphyg, sqag, Syha, whag. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "shag" (pronounced sha"g) |
| 2 | -a" g | ag, bag, brag, Dag, drag, fag, flag, gag, hag, lag, mag, nag, rag, sag, slag, snag, stag, tag, wag, Zag. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: gash, hags. | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-h-s" | |
-1 letter: ash, gas, hag, has, sag, sha. | |
-2 letters: ag, ah, as, ha, sh. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-h-s" | |
+1 letter: aghas, ghast, ghats, gnash, hangs, sangh, saugh, shags. | |
+2 letters: aghast, aguish, ashing, aughts, bhangs, bugsha, changs, galahs, galosh, garish, garths, gashed, gasher, gashes, geisha, gerahs, ghauts, ghazis, graphs, haggis, haughs, hogans, laighs, laughs, oghams, phages, sanghs, saughs, saughy, shaggy, shaugh, whangs. | |
+3 letters: afghans, alights, anguish, bashing, bugshas, cashing, changes, charges, chasing, curaghs, dashing, dishrag, fashing, galoshe, ganjahs, garfish, garnish, gashest, gashing, gasohol, gathers, gauchos, gawkish, geishas, gharris, ghastly, ghazies, gnashed, gnashes, goatish, goshawk, goulash, grahams, grayish, hagbush, hagbuts, hagdons, hagfish, haggish, haggles, hangars, hangers, hangups, hashing, hasping, hasting, hayings, hazings, hegaris, hegiras, hoagies, hogwash, homages, hostage, kiaughs, largish, lashing, mashing, meshuga, naughts, ohmages, pashing, phasing, quahogs, quaighs, rehangs, sandhog, sashing, scraigh, shading, shagged, shaking, shaming, shaping, sharing, shaughs, shaving, shawing, shebang, stengah, unhangs, waggish, washing, washrag, waughts. | |
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