ragg

“ragg” is a Swedish word. Its 3 meanings in English:

noun

coarse fur, bristles (hair of an animal, especially unordered, wild, rugged, shaggy hair)
a person one has (successfully) hit on, a hookup, pickup
an instance of hitting on someone, a pickup

Etymology

From Old Norse rǫgg, from Proto-Germanic *rūhaz (“coarse, rough”). Same as Danish rag, Icelandic rogg, Norwegian ragg, Old English adjective raggig and English noun rag, Icelandic rýja (“to rip the wool from sheep, to shear”), Latin ruo (“to rip, dig”) and rutrum (“a shovel”). In older times, wool was not cut or shorn from sheep, but ripped or torn off.

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