Meaning of the word "shag"
s926671
Does anyone know what the word "shag" means ?
I've found it in quite a lot of song titles (by Sidney Bechet, and Tiny
Parham), but of course my dictionary doesn't have it.
Thank you very much
Stephan Claassen
S.H.Cl...@kub.nl
ahe...@forest.drew.edu
in my experience, both a type of dance and a slang word for sex. you can
take your pick.
twill
ahe...@forest.drew.edu wrote:
(snip)
>
> in my experience, both a type of dance and a slang word for sex. you can
> take your pick.
balls in baseball, and a shag bag meaning a bag of golf balls which you
hit and then *shagged* (went out and picked up) so you could hit them
again (before golf driving ranges). Twill
Bret Arenson
ahe...@forest.drew.edu wrote:
>
> In article <5epepi$o...@mailnews.kub.nl>, s926671 <S.H.Cl...@KUB.NL> writes:
> > Does anyone know what the word "shag" means ?
> > I've found it in quite a lot of song titles (by Sidney Bechet, and Tiny
> > Parham), but of course my dictionary doesn't have it.
> >
> >
> > Thank you very much
> >
> > Stephan Claassen
> > S.H.Cl...@kub.nl
>
> take your pick.
I'll pick dancing first then sex later on. How it usually goes, right?
Bret Arenson
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skip elliott bowman
ahe...@forest.drew.edu wrote:
: In article <5epepi$o...@mailnews.kub.nl>, s926671 <S.H.Cl...@KUB.NL> writes:
: > Does anyone know what the word "shag" means ?
: > I've found it in quite a lot of song titles (by Sidney Bechet, and Tiny
: > Parham), but of course my dictionary doesn't have it.
Arthur Conan Doyle uses the term to describe the type of pipe tobacco
smoked by Sherlock Holmes in "The Man With The Twisted Lip". He smokes
an ounce of it in an all night meditation trying to solve a problem.
It's also the name of Shaggie's father in "The New Adventures Of Scooby
Doo". He's purported to be the developer of the recipe used to make
Scooby Snax.
Hope this helps!
Skip "Shag" Elliott Bowman
Brian Passingham
In article <5erhje$gss$2...@nadine.teleport.com>, skip elliott bowman
<skip...@teleport.com> writes
A shag is also a British seabird.
Hope this clears up any ambiguity ... Five unrelated meanings
and counting.
-- Brian Passingham
CLAY MOORE
How about six. I think it's a Scottish slang word for sex, and perhaps
originated there.
Clay
ro...@wt.net
> A shag is also a British seabird.
> Hope this clears up any ambiguity ... Five unrelated meanings
>and counting.
>-- Brian Passingham
Brian, make it number six---I was raised in the south, and grew up
with a term "to shag it", ie: "let's shag ass', or " to get out of
here--leave --let's go" usually at a fast pace. this is becoming quite
amusing. Am looking forward to more meanings to be posted.
Raleigh Jackson
tomb...@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu
In article <5etfif$1...@news.jhu.edu> tomb...@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu () writes:
>In article <3311F7...@ix.netcom.com> cmo...@ix.netcom.com writes:
>>Brian Passingham wrote:
>>>
>>> In article <5erhje$gss$2...@nadine.teleport.com>, skip elliott bowman
>>> <skip...@teleport.com> writes
>>> >ahe...@forest.drew.edu wrote:
>>> >: In article <5epepi$o...@mailnews.kub.nl>, s926671 <S.H.Cl...@KUB.NL> writes:
>>> >: > Does anyone know what the word "shag" means ?
>>> >: > I've found it in quite a lot of song titles (by Sidney Bechet, and Tiny
>>> >: > Parham), but of course my dictionary doesn't have it.
>>> >
>>> >Arthur Conan Doyle uses the term to describe the type of pipe tobacco
>>> >smoked by Sherlock Holmes in "The Man With The Twisted Lip". He smokes
>>> >an ounce of it in an all night meditation trying to solve a problem.
>>> >
>>> >It's also the name of Shaggie's father in "The New Adventures Of Scooby
>>> >Doo". He's purported to be the developer of the recipe used to make
>>> >Scooby Snax.
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>> Hope this clears up any ambiguity ... Five unrelated meanings
>>> and counting.
>>
>>originated there.
>
Also a type of carpet. That's eight different meanings so far.
CLAY MOORE
Yeah, Tom, but you're the only one who still has it in your pad. Avacado
green, isn't it?
Clay
mord...@mhv.net
Jonathan Dyer wrote:
>
> In article <331083...@chameleonprod.com>, Bret Arenson <manor...@chameleonprod.com> writes:
> > ahe...@forest.drew.edu wrote:
> > >
> > > In article <5epepi$o...@mailnews.kub.nl>, s926671 <S.H.Cl...@KUB.NL> writes:
> > > > Does anyone know what the word "shag" means ?
> > > > I've found it in quite a lot of song titles (by Sidney Bechet, and Tiny
> > > > Parham), but of course my dictionary doesn't have it.
> > > >
> > > >
The shag was a dance popular in the early 1930s done with hops
on alternating feet. There are some mentions of the dance in 1950s rock
lyrics also.
Jerry Ordansky
Jonathan Dyer
In article <331083...@chameleonprod.com>, Bret Arenson <manor...@chameleonprod.com> writes:
> ahe...@forest.drew.edu wrote:
> >
> > In article <5epepi$o...@mailnews.kub.nl>, s926671 <S.H.Cl...@KUB.NL> writes:
> > > Does anyone know what the word "shag" means ?
> > > I've found it in quite a lot of song titles (by Sidney Bechet, and Tiny
> > > Parham), but of course my dictionary doesn't have it.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Stephan Claassen
> > > S.H.Cl...@kub.nl
> >
> > in my experience, both a type of dance and a slang word for sex. you can
> > take your pick.
>
It also means a type of tobacco, a type of carpet, or a cormorant. Was Bechet an ornithologist in his spare time? I wonder.
Charles Day
> Does anyone know what the word "shag" means ?
In Britain, "shag" is roughly equivalent to "fuck". [Note that we don't say
"shag off!" and that "shagged out" means "very tired."]
It's also a seabird related to the cormorant.
Of course, Sidney Bechet and Tiny Parham were probably not using these
meanings. I just wanted to warn you against indiscrimate use of the word
in Britain.
Charles
Jim Hori
In article <3313E8...@mhv.net>, <mord...@mhv.net> wrote:
>The shag was a dance popular in the early 1930s done with hops
>on alternating feet. There are some mentions of the dance in 1950s rock
>lyrics also.
It is also the name of a 60s swing dance style popular in the
Carolina's beach music scene. See the film "Shag", an early
Bridget Fonda release, for insight into beach music (sweet soul
music) and shagging. Note that the film's title caused some
consternation in the UK where it is a slang term for sex.
Swing easy
....
jimh
Giri Iyengar
It's a slang word for 'masturbate,' at least in India. Another left-over
from British-speak, I think.
..Giri
Adam Good
so can i go "shag" to my pictures of Kylie Minogue now?
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tomb...@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu
In article <charles.day-26...@cday.gsfc.nasa.gov> charl...@gsfc.nasa.gov (Charles Day) writes:
>In article <5epepi$o...@mailnews.kub.nl>, s926671 <S.H.Cl...@KUB.NL> wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know what the word "shag" means ?
>
>In Britain, "shag" is roughly equivalent to "fuck".
I'll never think of my carpet the same way from now on.
Yllona Richardson
In article B...@ix.netcom.com, CLAY MOORE <cmo...@ix.netcom.com> () writes:
>Brian Passingham wrote:
>>
>> In article <5erhje$gss$2...@nadine.teleport.com>, skip elliott bowman
>> <skip...@teleport.com> writes
>> >ahe...@forest.drew.edu wrote:
>> >: > Does anyone know what the word "shag" means ?
>> >: > I've found it in quite a lot of song titles (by Sidney Bechet, and Tiny
>> >: > Parham), but of course my dictionary doesn't have it.
>> >
>> >smoked by Sherlock Holmes in "The Man With The Twisted Lip". He smokes
>> >an ounce of it in an all night meditation trying to solve a problem.
>> >
>> >It's also the name of Shaggie's father in "The New Adventures Of Scooby
>> >Doo". He's purported to be the developer of the recipe used to make
>> >Scooby Snax.
>> >
>> >
>> >Skip "Shag" Elliott Bowman
>>
>>
>> Hope this clears up any ambiguity ... Five unrelated meanings
>> and counting.
>>
>
>How about six. I think it's a Scottish slang word for sex, and perhaps
>originated there.
>
From "A Night in Tunisia: Imaginings of Africa in Jazz" by Norman C. Weinstein, Limelight Editions: New York, 1993. pgs. 32-33. Discussion of influence of jazz on the popular dances of the 1920's and 1930's.
["... dance decorum in the first two decades of this century was monolithically against such Africanized movements. "Do not shake the hips...Do not shake the body" ordered America's sweethearts of social dance, Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Castle. Such moves were considered by the Castles to be crudely unfashionable, that is to say Africanized and eroticized. Quaint as this 1913 stricture might appear, it is worth remembering that this call for de-Aficanized, desexualized popular dance extended into the sixties. Here is a definition from the sixties edition of "The Dance Encyclopedia":
'Jitterbug', a generic term now almost obsolete for unconventional, often formless and violent social dances to syncopated music...The best known forms of the jitterbug were the Charleston, Black Bottom, Shag, Lindy Hop, dances of the 1920's and 1930's."]
Weinstein furthers his argument by documenting a French reference on racism from a couple of centuries ago that cites:
[..."Moreau de Saint even suggested that the manner in which people danced 'might serve as a way of creating a scale to know the varying degree of civilization of different peoples'. His thesis was that savages had simple dance steps, whereas Europeans had complex ones."]
Okay, so I took a little tangent from the current thread, but it is an interesting commentary, isn't it?
/yllona
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In <5f07cn$n...@norman.colonial.com.au> j...@master.cmutual.com.au
>> ahe...@forest.drew.edu wrote:
>> >
>> > In article <5epepi$o...@mailnews.kub.nl>, s926671
<S.H.Cl...@KUB.NL> writes:
>> > > Does anyone know what the word "shag" means ?
>> > > I've found it in quite a lot of song titles (by Sidney Bechet,
and Tiny
>> > > Parham), but of course my dictionary doesn't have it.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Stephan Claassen
>> > > S.H.Cl...@kub.nl
>> >
>> > in my experience, both a type of dance and a slang word for sex.
you can
>> > take your pick.
>>
>
>It also means a type of tobacco, a type of carpet, or a cormorant.
Was Bechet an ornithologist in his spare time? I wonder.
Poodle, haircut. Y?
Russ Evans
CLAY MOORE <cmo...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> How about six. I think it's a Scottish slang word for sex, and perhaps
> originated there.
Not particularly Scottish slang. It's in general currency throughout
Britain. Most such four-letter words seem to be of Anglo-Saxon origin.
Is 'long-haired', as in 'shag [pile] rug', in the list yet?
Russ
Colin Sutherill
In message <3311F7...@ix.netcom.com>
CLAY MOORE <cmo...@ix.netcom.com> writes:
> How about six. I think it's a Scottish slang word for sex, and perhaps
> originated there.
Shag means screw throughout the UK.
- Colin
tomb...@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu
In article <1997030214...@seismo.demon.co.uk> ru...@seismo.demon.co.uk (Russ Evans) writes:
>CLAY MOORE <cmo...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
>> How about six. I think it's a Scottish slang word for sex, and perhaps
>> originated there.
>
Here's a challenge--create a sentence using as many meanings of
"shag" as possible. Example:
"Stop masturbating on my carpet, you fucking cormorant with a bad haircut!"
Translation: "Stop shagging on my shag, you shagging shag with a shag."