shagged

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”).

shagged (comparative more shagged, superlative most shagged)

1. (rare) Having or covered with shaggy hair.
2. (obsolete) Unkempt; clothed in rags; ragged.
3. (obsolete) Of garments and fabrics: having a rough or long nap.
4. Covered with scrub, trees, or rough or shaggy growth.
5. Jagged; having a rough, uneven surface.
6. Of hair: long; rough; shaggy.

shagged

1. simple past tense and past participle of shag

Origin uncertain. Perhaps related to fagged or to shag. Originally Kentish dialect according to Wright.

shagged (comparative more shagged, superlative most shagged)

1. (slang, vulgar) Extremely tired.
   • 1790, Nairne, Edward, “The Beggars”, in Kentish Tales‎, 2nd edition, published 1824, page 51:

     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!"

   • a. 1821, Masters, John White, Dick and Sal at Canterbury Fair:

     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.

• See also Thesaurus:fatigued

• shagged out

• Wright, Joseph (1904) The English Dialect Dictionary‎, volume 5, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 345