haggravate

English

Verb

haggravate (third-person singular simple present haggravates, present participle haggravating, simple past and past participle haggravated)

1. (archaic) Pronunciation spelling of aggravate.
   • 1840, Charles Whitehead, “Tavern Heads”, in Heads of the People: Or, Portraits of the English, page 133:

     Hostidge, I've nailed you: I do love to haggravate you!

   • 1846, G. A. a'Beckett, Mark Lemon, Peter Wilkins: Or, the Loadstone Rock and the Flying Indians, an Extra Extravagant Extravaganza, In Two Acts, page 11:

     Haggravate on! You'll get the worst on it.

   • 1945, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray, page 273:

     She is a snob of the first water, she puts rouge on her cheeks, & sports little bits of sticking plaster on her countenance not to cover her pimples but to haggravate her beauty.