hagged

English

Etymology 1

hag +‎ -ed

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhæɡɪd/
• Rhymes: -æɡɪd

Adjective

hagged (comparative more hagged, superlative most hagged)

1. Like a hag; ugly.

   Synonym: haglike

   • c. 1750, Thomas Gray, A Long Story (poem):

     The ghostly prudes with hagged face
     Already had condemned the sinner.

   • 1799, Robert Southey, Poems (poem), The Soldier's Wife:

     Woe-begone mother, half anger, half agony,
     As over thy shoulder thou lookest to hush the babe,
     Bleakly the blinding snow beats in thy hagged face.

   • 1962, Jack Kerouac, Big Sur, Chapter 2:

     The face of yourself you see in the mirror with its expression of unbearable anguish so hagged and awful with sorrow you cant even cry for a thing so ugly, so lost, no connection whatever with early perfection and therefore nothing to connect with tears or anything

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hæɡd/
• Rhymes: -æɡd

Verb

hagged

1. simple past and past participle of hag

References

• “hagged”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.