haggard

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[edit] Etymology

From Old French faulcon hagard (wild falcon) ( > French hagard (dazed)), from Middle High German hag (coppice) [1] ( > archaic German Hag (hedge, grove)). Akin to Frankish hagia ( > French haie (hedge))[2]

[edit] Adjective

haggard (comparative more haggard, superlative most haggard)

Positive
haggard

Comparative
more haggard

Superlative
most haggard

  1. Looking exhausted and unwell, in poor condition
  2. Wild or untamed

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[edit] Noun

Singular
haggard

Plural
haggards

haggard (plural haggards)

  1. (dialectal, Manx, Irish) A stackyard, an enclosure on a farm for stacking grain, hay, etc.
    "He tuk a slew [swerve] round the haggard" [1]
  2. (falconry) A hunting bird captured as an adult.
    A "haggard" is a bird captured as an adult and therefore of unknown age; often, the law prohibits capturing birds of mating age. Falconry Pro

[edit] References

  • Notes:
  1. ^haggard” in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001
  2. ^ Le Robert pour tous, Dictionnaire de la langue française, Janvier 2004, p. 547, haie