Haggard Definition
hăgərd
adjective
Designating a hawk captured after reaching maturity.
Webster's New World
Exhausted or distraught and often gaunt in appearance.
American Heritage
Untamed; unruly; wild.
Webster's New World
Wild-eyed.
Webster's New World
Having a wild, wasted, worn look, as from sleeplessness, grief, or illness; gaunt; drawn.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
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noun
An adult hawk captured for training.
American Heritage
A haggard hawk.
Webster's New World
(dialect, Manx, Ireland) A stackyard, an enclosure on a farm for stacking grain, hay, etc.
"He tuk a slew [swerve] round the haggard"
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
- Sir Henry Rider Haggard
- Rider Haggard
Other Word Forms of Haggard
Noun
Singular:
haggard
Plural:
haggardsOrigin of Haggard
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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”))
From Wiktionary
French hagard wild from Old French wild hawk, raptor perhaps of Germanic origin
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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