Shaggy \Shag"gy\, a. [Compar. Shaggier; superl. Shaggiest.]

[From Shag, n.]

Rough with long hair or wool. [1913 Webster]

About his shoulders hangs the shaggy skin. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]

2. Rough; rugged; jaggy. --Milton. [1913 Webster]

[A rill] that winds unseen beneath the shaggy fell. --Keble. [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

72 Moby Thesaurus words for "shaggy": bristly, broken, bumpy, bushy, choppy, cirrose, coarse, coarse-grained, corrugated, cross-grained, disheveled, fleecy, flocculent, furry, fuzzy, grainy, granulated, hairy, hirsute, hispid, homespun, horripilant, inequal, irregular, jolty, knobbed, lanate, linsey-woolsey, matted, messed up, mussed up, nappy, nubbly, nubby, pilose, pily, pimply, pitted, pocky, potholed, pubescent, rank, ripply, rough, rough-cast, rough-grained, rough-hewn, ruffled, rumpled, rutted, rutty, shagged, snaggy, snarled, studded, textured, tousled, tously, tumbled, uncombed, uncut, uneven, unkempt, unlevel, unpolished, unrefined, unshorn, unsmooth, untidy, ununiform, wimpled, woolly

Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
 

shaggy adj
1: used of hair; thick and poorly groomed; "bushy locks"; "a shaggy beard" [syn: bushy]
2: having a very rough nap or covered with hanging shags; "junipers with shagged trunks"; "shaggy rugs" [syn: shagged] [also: shaggiest, shaggier]

Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
 

Shaggy \Shag"gy\, a. [Compar. Shaggier; superl. Shaggiest.]

[From Shag, n.]

Rough with long hair or wool.

About his shoulders hangs the shaggy skin. --Dryden.

2. Rough; rugged; jaggy. --Milton.

[A rill] that winds unseen beneath the shaggy fell. --Keble.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)