2. Noun. (UK vulgar slang) an act of sexual intercourse ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Shagging
1. shag [v] - See also: shag
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shagging
Literary usage of Shagging
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Trees in Winter: Their Study, Planting, Care and Identification by Albert Francis Blakeslee, Chester Deacon Jarvis (1913)
"COMPARISON'S—The Shag-bark Hickory is distinguished from other trees by the
distinct shagging of its bark. The bark especially of one variety of the Pignut ..."
2. Studies of Trees in Winter: A Description of the Deciduous Trees of by Annie Oakes Huntington (1902)
"The rough bark shagging off in curving plates, and the buds with the same shagging,
curving outer scales are the distinctive characteristics of the shagbark ..."
3. English Literature: An Illustrated Record by Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse (1905)
"... literary person who appeared in Edinburgh, and where, behind his counter, he
broke into verse at the least excuse, " e'en at the shagging of a feather. ..."
4. The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries by John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Henry Phelps Johnston, Martha Joanna Lamb, Nathan Gillett Pond, William Abbatt (1878)
"... My Pegasus wad break his tether, E'en at the shagging of a feather, And throw
ideas scour like drift, Streaking his wings up to the lift. ..."
5. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1894)
"... and not a tree or bush to give any sign of life, but the fringe of the dominant
black weed, like heavy brows, shagging the outlook. ..."
6. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines: Containing a Clear Exposition by Andrew Ure (1844)
"... in the double bolt machine, has an occasional lateral movement called shagging,
equal to the interval of one tooth or bolt, by which, ..."
7. A Library of Poetry and Song: Being Choice Selections from the Best Poets by William Cullen Bryant (1874)
"Now it is death in life, — a vapor dense Creeps round my window, till I cannot
see The far snow-shining mountains, and the glens shagging the mountain tops. ..."
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