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Yes. The word shag is a Scrabble US word. The word shag is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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4-letter words (3 found)

GASH,HAGS,SHAG,

3-letter words (8 found)

AGS,AHS,ASH,GAS,HAG,HAS,SAG,SHA,

2-letter words (5 found)

AG,AH,AS,HA,SH,

You can make 16 words from shag according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of shag

shag hsag sahg ashg hasg ahsg shga hsga sgha gsha hgsa ghsa sagh asgh sgah gsah agsh gash hags ahgs hgas ghas aghs gahs

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Definitions and meaning of shag

shag

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃæɡ/
  • Rhymes: -æɡ

Etymology 1

From Middle English *schagge, from Old English sċeacga (“hair, wool”), from Proto-Germanic *skaggô, *skaggiją (“projection, bristly hair, stem”), *skag- (“to emerge, stick out, protrude”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kek- (“to jump, move, hurry”).

Akin to Old Norse skegg (“beard”) (compare Danish skæg, Norwegian skjegg, Swedish skägg). Related to shake and shock via the root.

Noun

shag (countable and uncountable, plural shags)

  1. Matted material; rough massed hair, fibres etc.
  2. Coarse shredded tobacco.
  3. A type of rough carpet pile.
  4. (UK, archaic) Bacon or fat, especially if with some remaining hair or bristles.
  5. (UK, archaic) A roughly-cut or torn-off piece of bread or cheese.
  6. (often attributive) A deliberately messy, shaggy hairstyle.
    Synonym: shaggy cut
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

shag (third-person singular simple present shags, present participle shagging, simple past and past participle shagged)

  1. (transitive) To make hairy or shaggy; to roughen.
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) To hang in shaggy clusters.

Adjective

shag (comparative more shag, superlative most shag)

  1. (obsolete) Hairy; shaggy.

Etymology 2

Unknown. Perhaps a derivative of Etymology 1, above, with reference to the bird's shaggy crest.

Noun

shag (plural shags)

  1. Any of several species of sea birds in the family Phalacrocoracidae (cormorant family), especially a common shag or European shag (Phalacrocorax aristotelis), found on European and African coasts.
Hypernyms
  • sea bird
Hyponyms
Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English schaggen, a variant of Middle English schoggen (“to shake; shake off; tremble”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps a byform of Middle English schokken (“to shake; move rapidly”), related to Middle Low German schokken (“to shake; tremble”). Alternatively, perhaps ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skakkōną (“to shake”), specifically continuing a post-Proto-Germanic variant *skagg-, where the non-singular stem *skag- caused the analogical replacement of the stem-final voiceless geminate consonants with voiced geminates, which was then leveled throughout the paradigm.

Verb

shag (third-person singular simple present shags, present participle shagging, simple past and past participle shagged)

  1. (intransitive) To shake, wiggle around.
    Synonyms: jiggle, rock, tremble; see also Thesaurus:shake
  2. (UK, Ireland, transitive, vulgar slang) To have sex with.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:copulate with
  3. (UK, Ireland, intransitive, vulgar slang) To have sex.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:copulate
  4. (India, transitive, vulgar slang) To masturbate.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:masturbate
  5. To chase after; especially, to chase after and return (a ball) hit usually out of play.
  6. (dance, uncommon) To perform the dance called the shag.
Translations

Noun

shag (plural shags)

  1. (dance, sometimes capitalized) A swing dance.
  2. (slang, vulgar) An act of sex.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:copulation
  3. (slang, vulgar) A casual sexual partner.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:casual sexual partner
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Etymology 4

Blend of shower (“bridal shower”) +‎ stag (“bachelor party”).

Noun

shag (plural shags)

  1. (Northwestern Ontario) A fundraising dance in honour of a couple engaged to be married.
Synonyms
  • stag and doe, stag and doe party (Canada, Ontario)
  • social, wedding social (Canada, Prairies)
Translations

References

  • “shag” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.

Etymology 5

Unknown.

Noun

shag (plural shags)

  1. (West Country) Friend; mate; buddy.
Synonyms
  • See Thesaurus:friend

Etymology 6

From shagged or shagged out.

Adjective

shag (comparative more shag, superlative most shag)

  1. (Singapore, slang) Alternative form of shack (“exhausted”)

See also

  • shag-boy (potenitally derived from one of the above terms, but possibly etymologically unrelated)

Anagrams

  • Gash, HAGS, gash, hags

Albanian

Etymology

From Latin sagum (“sagum, cloak made of coarse fabric”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃaɡ/

Noun

shag m (plural shegje, definite shagu, definite plural shegjet)

  1. coarse linen fabric spread on the floor
    Synonyms: qilim, tapet

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English shag.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃɛk/
  • Hyphenation: shag
  • Rhymes: -ɛk

Noun

shag m (uncountable, diminutive shagje n or sjekkie n)

  1. shag (coarse shredded tobacco)

Source: wiktionary.org