And as far as the etymology concerned, there is a minority opinion that it derives from Scots Gaelic sgonn, meaning a shapeless mass or possibly a village in Scotland called Scone.
Where there should have been eyes, there was only thin, gray scabbed skin, stretched blankly over empty sockets. But there was a mouth...a gaping, shapeless hole, sucking the air with the sound of a death rattle.
Harry glanced over at her; she was sitting with Crookshanks on her lap and chatting merrily to Ginny as a pair of knitting needles flashed in midair in front of her, now knitting a pair of shapeless elf socks.
And besides the problem that cinema, and everything really, is becoming blander and blander and as a result, a growingly homogenous and shapeless mass in pursuit of maximum reach; overlit and underwritten.
It was the most comical shapeless thing, this improvised doll, with no nose, mouth, ears or eyes, nothing that even the imagination of a child could convert into a face.
He sat up and turned his attention to immediate affairs. He had worn holes through the blanket wrappings, and his feet were like shapeless pieces of meat.
But running throughout the ground substance is another important component: fibers, which provide support and structure to the otherwise shapeless ground substance. And here, too, are lots of different types.
The nose was stubby and shapeless, the mouth lopsided and full of misshapen yellow teeth the size of half-bricks; the small eyes, were a muddy greenish-brown and just now were half-gummed together with sleep.