haggard

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13
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14
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7
Pronunciation
/ˈhæɡ.əd/(UK)
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/ˈhæɡ.əd/(UK) · /ˈhæɡ.ɚd/(US)

Definition of haggard

9 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Looking exhausted, worried, or poor in condition
    “Pale and haggard faces.”
    “A gradual descent into a haggard and feeble state.”
    “The years of hardship made her look somewhat haggard.”
    “Staring his eyes, and haggard was his look.”
    “Then there was a pale, care-wrinkled woman, not old, but haggard, and already with streaks of gray among her hair, like silver ribbons; one of those women, naturally delicate, whom you at once recognize as worn to death by a brute—probably, a drunken brute—of a husband, and at least nine children.”
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adj

  1. Looking exhausted, worried, or poor in condition
    “Pale and haggard faces.”
    “A gradual descent into a haggard and feeble state.”
    “The years of hardship made her look somewhat haggard.”
    “Staring his eyes, and haggard was his look.”
    “Then there was a pale, care-wrinkled woman, not old, but haggard, and already with streaks of gray among her hair, like silver ribbons; one of those women, naturally delicate, whom you at once recognize as worn to death by a brute—probably, a drunken brute—of a husband, and at least nine children.”
  2. Wild or untamed
    “a haggard or refractory hawk”

noun

  1. A hunting bird captured as an adult.
    “No, truly, Ursula, she is too disdainful; I know her spirits are as coy and wild As haggards of the rock.”
    “1856, John Henry Walsh, Manual of British Rural Sports HAGGARDS may be trapped in this country but with the square-net, or the bow-net, but in either case great difficulty is experienced”
  2. A young or untrained hawk or falcon.
  3. (obsolete)A fierce, intractable creature.
    “I have loved this proud disdainful haggard.”
  4. (obsolete)A hag.
    “In a dark Grott the baleful Haggard lay, Breathing black Vengeance, and infecting Day”
  5. (Ireland, Scotland, dialectal)A stackyard, an enclosure on a farm for stacking grain, hay, etc.
    “He tuk a slew [swerve] round the haggard http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/fulltext/am1924/pt_s.htm”

name

  1. A surname.
  2. An unincorporated community in Gray County, Kansas, United States.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Middle French haggard, from Old French faulcon hagard (“wild falcon”) ( > French hagard (“dazed”)), from Middle High German hag (“coppice”) ( > archaic German Hag (“hedge, grove”)). Akin to Frankish *hagia ( > French haie (“hedge”))

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