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shaggy
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shaggy-dog Story
a kind of funny story that relies for its humor on its length and its sudden ridiculous ending. Don't let John tell a shaggy-dog story. It'll go on for hours. Mary didn't get the point of Fred's shaggy-dog story.
See also: story
a shaggy dog story
a joke which is a long story with a silly end My grandad insists on telling these shaggy dog stories, which nobody finds funny except him.
See also: dog, story
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Everybody in "Anchorman" sports the Me-Decade shagginess that haunts many of us in yearbook photos and wedding portraits.
The '70s were good for a laugh then ... they still are by Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
My own aim in writing a novel is to have some of that shagginess and memoir in it.
'I never met anyone else like Jack Kerouac' by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
I fervently attacked my menacing hide of beastly shagginess and managed to pull off a state of continuous hairlessness for over a year.
Confessions of a gorilla girl by FRANKLIN, HANNAH / Girls' Life
 
 
 
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