haggard
Meanings
Plural: haggards
Noun
- British writer noted for romantic adventure novels (1856-1925)
- A hunting bird captured as an adult.
- A young or untrained hawk or falcon.
- A fierce, intractable creature.
- A hag.
- A stackyard, an enclosure on a farm for stacking grain, hay, etc.
Adjective Satellite
- showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering; ; ; ; - Charles Dickens
- "her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness"
- very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
- "eyes were haggard and cavernous"
Adj
- Looking exhausted, worried, or poor in condition
- Wild or untamed
Origin / 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”))
Synonyms
bony, cadaverous, careworn, drawn, emaciated, gaunt, pinched, raddled, Rider Haggard, Sir Henry Rider Haggard, skeletal, wasted, worn
Scrabble Score: 13
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