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['ʃægɪ]aggettivo [hair, beard, eyebrows] lungo e ispido; [ animal] a pelo lungo; [ carpet] a pelo lungo e ispido* * *['ʃæɡi]((covered with hair, fur etc that is) rough and untidy in appearance: The dog had a shaggy coat; a shaggy dog.) ispido, irsuto; (dal pelo lungo)* * *shaggy /ˈʃægɪ/a.1 dal pelo lungo; irsuto; ispido; velloso; villoso: a shaggy dog, un cane dal pelo lungo; a shaggy beard, una barba ispida4 (bot.) peloso; vellutato● a shaggy-dog story, una lunga storiella comica, con finale paradossale; una barzelletta lunga e priva di sensoshagginessn. [u]1 pelosità; ispidezza; villosità2 asprezza; ruvidezza; scabrosità.* * *['ʃægɪ] -
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Shaggy dog — or The Shaggy Dog may refer to: Shaggy Dog (play), a 1968 television play by Dennis Potter The Shaggy Dog (1959 film), starring Fred MacMurray and Tommy Kirk The Shaggy Dog (1994 film), a made for TV remake starring Ed Begley, Jr. and Scott… … Wikipedia
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shaggy dog (story) — or shaggy dog n. [from such an anecdote involving a shaggy dog] a long, rambling joke, typically involving ludicrously unreal or irrational behavior and usually having an irrelevant conclusion … English World dictionary
shaggy dog (story) — or shaggy dog n. [from such an anecdote involving a shaggy dog] a long, rambling joke, typically involving ludicrously unreal or irrational behavior and usually having an irrelevant conclusion … English World dictionary
shaggy dog story — A shaggy dog story is a joke which is a long story with a silly end … The small dictionary of idiomes
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shaggy dog story — shaggy dog .story n old fashioned a long joke that usually ends in a silly or disappointing way … Dictionary of contemporary English
shaggy dog story — shaggy dog ,story noun count a very long joke that ends in a silly way … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
Shaggy dog story — In its original sense, a shaggy dog story is an extremely long winded tale featuring extensive narration of typically irrelevant incidents, usually resulting in a pointless or absurd punchline. These stories are a special case of yarns, coming… … Wikipedia
shaggy-dog story — ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˈ ̷ ̷ noun 1. a. : a long drawn out circumstantial story concerning an inconsequential happening that impresses the teller as humorous but the hearer as boresome and pointless b. : a similar humorous story whose humor lies in the… … Useful english dictionary
