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English Idioms :: shaggy dog (story)
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shaggy.html - {n. phr.} A special kind of joke whose long and often convoluted introduction and development delay the effect of the punch line. * /Uncle Joe only seems to bore his audiences with his long shaggy dog jokes, for when he comes to the long-awaited punch line, he gets very few laughs./ |
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Traditional English :: shaggy
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shaggy.html - adj. (shaggier, shaggiest) 1 hairy, rough-haired. 2 unkempt. 3 (of the hair) coarse and abundant. 4 Biol. having a hairlike covering. shaggy-dog story a long rambling story amusing only by its being inconsequential. shaggily adv. shagginess n. |
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English Idioms :: shaggy dog (story)
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shaggy.html - {n. phr.} A special kind of joke whose long and often convoluted introduction and development delay the effect of the punch line. * /Uncle Joe only seems to bore his audiences with his long shaggy dog jokes, for when he comes to the long-awaited punch line, he gets very few laughs./ |
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Traditional English :: shaggy
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shaggy.html - adj. (shaggier, shaggiest) 1 hairy, rough-haired. 2 unkempt. 3 (of the hair) coarse and abundant. 4 Biol. having a hairlike covering. shaggy-dog story a long rambling story amusing only by its being inconsequential. shaggily adv. shagginess n. |
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English Idioms :: shaggy dog (story)
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shaggy.html - {n. phr.} A special kind of joke whose long and often convoluted introduction and development delay the effect of the punch line. * /Uncle Joe only seems to bore his audiences with his long shaggy dog jokes, for when he comes to the long-awaited punch line, he gets very few laughs./ |
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Traditional English :: shag(1)
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shaggy.html - n. 1 a rough growth or mass of hair etc. 2 a coarse kind of cut tobacco. 3 a cormorant, esp. the crested cormorant, Phalacrocorax aristotelis. [OE sceacga, rel. to ON skegg beard, OE sceaga coppice] |
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