Meanings
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of shag
“Ha! Shagging a chair is quite odd.” “Its legs were very sexy. And I know how you are, so I expected a challenge. What did you turn into anyway?” “Oh, the dowdiest mortal woman. You should have seen it.” “Oh, I would have been all over that.” “I know!”
2025 May 11, Monica Padrick, “Don Tyxote” (15:59 from the start), in Krapopolis, season 2, episode 21, spoken by Deliria (Hannah Waddingham)
plural shaggings
- UKslanguncountableusuallyvulgarAn act (or acts) of sexual intercourse.
Well, you'll do what you want, but I'll tell you this: one of the best shaggings I ever had was with an overweight housepainter who bought me a beer and a hamburger and, the next week, painted my kitchen for free.
2007, Martina Reisz Newberry, Hunger (page 28): Insomnia (poem)
- UKslangvulgarUsed to express dislike of or annoyance towards the thing mentioned.
I'm sick of this shagging job.
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