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haggard

adj
/ˈhæɡ.əd/UK/ˈhæɡ.ɚd/US

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”))

  1. derived from hag
  2. derived from faulcon
  3. borrowed from haggard

Definitions

  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.

  2. Wild or untamed

    • a haggard or refractory hawk

  3. 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
  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

    1. A young or untrained hawk or falcon.

    2. A fierce, intractable creature.

      • I have loved this proud disdainful haggard.

    3. A hag.

      • In a dark Grott the baleful Haggard lay, Breathing black Vengeance, and infecting Day

    4. 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

    5. A surname.

    6. An unincorporated community in Gray County, Kansas, United States.

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Derived

haggardly, haggardness

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at haggard. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01haggard02adult03fully04lack05dearth06rare07thin08gaunt

A definitional loop anchored at haggard. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at haggard

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA