shag

• n. 粗毛；粗煙絲；蓬亂一團
• vt. 使雜亂；使蓬鬆
• vi. 蓬鬆
• adj. 有粗毛的；蓬亂的

來自古英語 sceacga,毛發，粗毛，來自 Proto-Germanic*skaggija,胡子，胡渣，來自 PIE*skek, 搖擺，搖晃，詞源同 shake.引申俚語詞義粗煙絲等。

shag

shag: [OE] Shag originally meant ‘rough untidy hair’, a sense now more familiar in its derivative shaggy [16]. Related Old Norse forms such as skegg ‘beard’, skagi ‘promontory’, and skaga ‘project’ suggest that its underlying meaning is ‘something that sticks out’. The bird-name shag, which denotes a relative of the cormorant and was first recorded in the 16th century, may be an allusion to the bird’s shaggy crest. The origins of the verb shag ‘copulate with’, which dates from the late 18th century, are not known, although it may be distantly related to shake.

shag (n.)

1590s, "cloth having a velvet nap on one side," perhaps from Old English sceacga "rough matted hair or wool," from Proto-Germanic *skagjan (cognates: Old Norse skegg, Swedish skägg "beard"), perhaps related to Old High German scahho "promontory," Old Norse skagi "a cape, headland," with a connecting sense of "jutting out, projecting." But the word appears to be missing in Middle English. Of tobacco, "cut in fine shreds," it is recorded from 1789; of carpets, rugs, etc., from 1946.

shag (v.1)

"copulate with," 1788, probably from obsolete verb shag (late 14c.) "to shake, waggle," which probably is connected to shake (v.).

And þe boot, amydde þe water, was shaggid. [Wyclif]

Compare shake it in U.S. blues slang from 1920s, ostensibly with reference to dancing. But compare shag (v.), used from 1610s in a sense "to roughen or make shaggy." Also the name of a dance popular in U.S. 1930s and '40s. Related: Shagged; shagging.

shag (v.2)

in baseball, "to go after and catch" (fly balls), by 1913, of uncertain origin. Century Dictionary has it as a secondary sense of a shag (v.) "to rove about as a stroller or beggar" (1851), which is perhaps from shack (n.) "disreputable fellow" (1680s), short for shake-rag, an old term for a beggar.

1. He stood with bare feet in deep orange shag a hairy man of small stature.

他是一個汗毛很重的矮個子,光著腳站在深桔色的地毯上.

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2. They were the epicenter of none - stop nation - wide virtual shag there.

他們是這個全國範圍中永不停息的舞蹈的核心.

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3. He bought a shag rug.

他買了一條粗毛毯子.

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4. A shag's shortest layers reach the middle of the ears and get longer from there.

這款蓬鬆發型的最短層次應該在耳朵中部,然後從那裏開始逐漸變長.

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5. My thick, black hair had been recently cut short into a shag style.

我一頭濃濃的黑發最近剛被剪短成一種蓬鬆的發型.

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