Shagger vs Slagger - What's the difference?

shagger | slagger |

As nouns the difference between shagger and slagger

is that shagger is one who shags while slagger is one who slags.

shagger

English

Noun

(en noun)

One who shags.

# One who has sexual intercourse.

#* 1997 , , Issues 6061-6069, page 74,

deracinated German, ace journalist and communist spy, compulsive cocktail drinker and serial shagger : the agent of penetration par excellence is engaging in sexual congress with a secretary from the German embassy in the Japanese capital.

#* 2006 , , Richard Hill: The Autobiography , unnumbered page,

‘What do you want to be remembered for, being the best shaggers and drinkers or the best rugby players?’

#* 2007 , , Oliver Harvey, Who Ate All the Pies?: The Life and Times of Mick Quinn , page 69,

There would be card schools, too, and when we overnighted the shaggers among the lads would be sniffing after everything in a skirt.

# One who catches and returns a ball, usually out of play; one who fetches played balls; one who fetches shot game.

#* 1980 , Ken Dugan, Secrets of Coaching Championship Baseball , page 24,

The shagger is placed in this position to avoid the danger of his being hit by a batted ball.

#* 1983 , Bob Brister, Doves Galore'', '' , page 61,

As we arrived at the grainfield a covey of little Mexican boys swarmed in from all directions, waving and yelling and climbing on the bumpers, vying for jobs as bird shaggers . Birds were darting low over the vehicles and somebody got excited and started shooting right there, bringing the kids racing for the fallen birds, because whoever got one had a job for sure.

#* 1995 , Mario Pagnoni, Gerald Robinson, Softball: Fast and Slow Pitch , page 100,

As soon as the outfielder releases the throw to the shagger , a second ball is fungoed and the fielder must react quickly,.

#* 2011 , Jim McLean, Tom McCarthy, The Complete Hogan: A Shot-by-Shot Analysis of Golf?s Greatest Swing , unnumbered page,

He always had a shagger , a caddy who put the shag bag right in front of his feet.

One who dances the shag; a jazz dancer.

* 2012 , Renee Wright, Myrtle Beach & South Carolina?s Grand Strand , Explorer?s Guides, unnumbered page,

The first gathering proved so successful that SOS has expanded to a year-round schedule of events, including annual ten-day Spring Safaris and Fall Migrations, attracting up to 10,000 shaggers at a time, plus weekend gatherings in winter and summer.

(UK, Australia, colloquial, slang) A popular person; also used as an epithet .

Derived terms

* ball shagger, shagger's back, sheepshagger

slagger

English

Noun

(en noun)

One who slags.

* 1999 , Elizabeth A. Throop, Net Curtains and Closed Doors: Intimacy, Family, and Public Life in Dublin , page 54,

The proper response to slagging is to laugh at oneself while “getting back” at one?s slagger .

One who works with slag.

* 2009 , , Monongahela Dusk , page 255,

Miravich closes his eyes and remembers his days as a slagger'. When a mold is full, a ' slagger moves in with his tool, a techmological marvel othereise known as a board slightly larger than a two-by-four. He leans out over the track and skims slag off the top of the boiling steel, risking what is called “catching a flyer,” which occurs when hot metal explodes out of the mold, spraying everyone in the vicinity.