Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Exhausted or distraught and often gaunt in appearance.
- adjective Wild and intractable. Used of a hawk in falconry.
- noun An adult hawk captured for training.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Wild; intractable: said of a hawk or falcon.
- Hence Untamed; lawless; wanton; profligate.
- noun A hawk; specifically, in falconry, a wild hawk caught when in its adult plumage.
- noun A hag; an ugly old woman; also, a wanton.
- Wild-looking, as from prolonged suffering, terror, or want; careworn; gaunt; wildly staring.
- Desperately wild; reckless: with reference to an act.
- Synonyms Grim, Grisly, etc. (see
ghastly ); lean, worn, wasted (especially in countenance). - noun A stack-yard.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Wild or intractable; disposed to break away from duty; untamed.
- adjective Having the expression of one wasted by want or suffering; hollow-eyed; having the features distorted or wasted by pain; wild and wasted, or anxious in appearance.
- noun (Falconry) A young or untrained hawk or falcon.
- noun A fierce, intractable creature.
- noun obsolete A hag.
- noun Prov. Eng. A stackyard.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Looking
exhausted andunwell , in poor condition - adjective
Wild oruntamed - noun dialect, Ireland A
stackyard , an enclosure on a farm for stacking grain, hay, etc. - noun falconry A
hunting bird captured as an adult.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering
- adjective very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
- noun British writer noted for romantic adventure novels (1856-1925)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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III. iii.260 (442,7) If I do prore her haggard] A _haggard_ hark, is a
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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Here and there a desperate thief, with hungry eyes and thin haggard face, was climbing down through the gap, in rash hope of possible treasure.
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ElBruce, it seems litigant retard thinks calling attention to Haggard still being gay is fight’n words. sounds like she has a personal stake in haggard’s ‘treatment’. do we have another ‘ex-gay’ con artist like buttblight? lol!
Think Progress » CPAC Conference Dissolves Into Right-Wing Civil War Over Gay Rights 2010
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She hadn't told Rhyme that she, like him, would never name a hunting bird, that she'd called the haggard merely "the falcon."
The Coffin Dancer Deaver, Jeffery 1998
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An eyas was a hawk taken from its nest while still without feathers, but the haggard was a bird caught after it had gained adult plumage in the wild.
From This Beloved Hour Lambert, Willa 1982
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Phoenix, for so Peter had dubbed the haggard in memory of his and Jenny's first discussion of the bennu hieroglyph in the Egyptian Museum, had known the ecstasy of freedom and had a look about her that definitely said she preferred the wild to captivity.
From This Beloved Hour Lambert, Willa 1982
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His eyes were bloodshot, and his face, all begrimed with smoke and gunpowder, wore an expression haggard, gaunt, and very weary.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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The sight of these symbols of foreign oppression recalled the haggard faces and toil-bent frames I had seen on my journey to Milan.
Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge James Aitken Wylie 1849
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As the comments bandied about by pundits and columnists that Sen. Clinton was a "ball buster" (MSNBC Host Tucker Carlson), "haggard" (syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin on Fox News), and "big-bummed" (Kurt Anderson in New York Magazine) became a faint echo in the campaigning distance, would the second woman to run on a major-party ticket in the 2008 election cycle endure similar treatment?
'Sexism's Coming Out Party' Hannah Seligson 2008
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I mean when he was very gray and kind of haggard looking.
ofravens commented on the word haggard
Haggard through the hot white noon
from "Pursuit," by Sylvia Plath
April 8, 2008
knitandpurl commented on the word haggard
"I was spreading a bit of manure for Patrick down in Garry Dyne when one of Tommy's young ones came up to me. "Maggie Frances is dying," she said. And what do you know, Kitty, the young one, was just going in the door when I reached the end of the haggard."
The Dirty Dust by Máirtín Ó Cadhain, translated by Alan Titley, p 7
June 5, 2016