shagged meaning (rare): definition, etymology and quotations

shagged

adj

Etymology From Old English sceacgede, from sceacga (“hair”), from Proto-Germanic *skaggiją (“beard, stem”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kek-, *(s)keg- (“to jump, move, hurry”).

Rare Having or covered with shaggy hair.

Obsolete Unkempt; clothed in rags; ragged.

Obsolete Of garments and fabrics: having a rough or long nap.

Covered with scrub, trees, or rough or shaggy growth.

Jagged; having a rough, uneven surface.

Of hair: long; rough; shaggy.

Derived terms: shaggedness

shagged

adj

Etymology Uncertain. Perhaps related to fagged or to shag. Originally Kentish dialect according to Wright.

Slang, Vulgar Extremely tired.

No, I am shagged, for I know, / Jack Ragaboy, awhile ago, / Got sorely flogg'd for begging there; / The beadle had him to the may'r!"1790, Edward Nairne, “The Beggars”, in Kentish Tales, 2nd edition, published 1824, page 51:
An Sal sung out, "why dis here wall, / It looks sa old an hagged; / I'm mortally afared 'twill fall / An I was deadly shagged.a. 1821, John White Masters, Dick and Sal at Canterbury Fair:

Derived terms: shagged out