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./

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.

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./

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.

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./

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]