shagginess

1. 1.

   unkemptness of hair

   Broadersloppiness
2. 2.

   roughness of nap produced by long woolly hairs

   Broaderroughness

Other forms of shagginess

plural

shagginesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about shagginess

What does shagginess mean?

shagginess means "unkemptness of hair". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in shagginess?

shagginess has 3 syllables: shag-gi-ness. The stress falls on "shag".

Is shagginess a common word?

shagginess is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.