shag

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) Matted material; rough massed hair, fibres etc.
2. (countable, uncountable) Coarse shredded tobacco.
3. (countable, uncountable) A type of rough carpet pile.
4. (Ireland, UK, archaic, countable, uncountable) Bacon or fat, especially if with some remaining hair or bristles.
5. (Ireland, UK, archaic, countable, uncountable) A roughly-cut or torn-off piece of bread or cheese.
6. (attributive, countable, often, uncountable) A deliberately messy, shaggy hairstyle.

Verb

1. (transitive) To make hairy or shaggy; to roughen.
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To hang in shaggy clusters.

Adj

Hairy; shaggy.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To shake, wiggle around.
2. (Ireland, UK, slang, transitive, vulgar) To have sex with.
3. (Ireland, UK, intransitive, slang, vulgar) To have sex.
4. (India, slang, transitive, vulgar) To masturbate.
5. To chase after; especially, to chase after and return (a ball) hit usually out of play.
6. (uncommon) To perform the dance called the shag.

Adj

1. (Singapore, Singlish, slang) Exhausted, worn out, extremely tired.
2. (Singapore, Singlish, slang) Tough and exhausting.

Synonyms

fuck

👉👌

cormorant

have sex

screw

piece of ass

ass

🍑

fucking

make love

nookie

nooky

roll in the hay

screwing

velour

get laid

shtup

piece of tail

common shag

European shag

shaggy mane

fak

rough

roughen

score

coarse

shaggy ink cap

sleep with

stumble

toughen

coarse wool

velvet

wig

eff

european shag

lawyer’s wig

have sexual intercourse

asperate

shaggie

fuck around

love

❤️

fuzz

get busy

get it on

do

join

knot

🪢

inky cap

mop

nap

Translations

baiser

😗

follar

👉👌

cormoran

foda

👉👌

aalscholver

corvo-marinho

faire l’amour

ficken

👉👌

bumsen

pimpern

👉👌

vögeln

Scharbe

Krähenscharbe

baise

😗

fare l’amore

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ʃæɡ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: *schagge

Inherited from Old English: sċeacga

Cognate with Old Norse: skegg

Cognate with Danish: skæg

Cognate with Norwegian: skjegg

Cognate with Swedish: skägg

Inherited from Middle English: schaggen

Cognate with Middle English: schoggen

Cognate with Middle English: schokken

Cognate with Middle Low German: schokken

In summary

Etymology tree
Old English sċeacga
Middle English *schagge
English shag
From Middle English *schagge, from Old English sċeacga (“hair, wool”), from Proto-Germanic *skaggô, *skaggiją (“projection, bristly hair, stem”), *skag- (“to emerge, stick out, protrude”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kek- (“to jump, move, hurry”).
Akin to Old Norse skegg (“beard”) (compare Danish skæg, Norwegian skjegg, Swedish skägg). Related to shake and shock via the root.