# haggard
## English
### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈhæɡ.əd/
* (US) enPR: hăg-ərd' IPA: /ˈhæɡ.ɚd/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -æɡə(ɹ)d

### Etymology 1

From Middle French haggard, 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”))

#### Adjective

haggard (comparative more haggard, superlative most haggard)
* Looking exhausted, worried, or poor in condition
    Pale and haggard faces.
    A gradual descent into a haggard and feeble state.
    The years of hardship made her look somewhat haggard.
** 1685, John Dryden, The Despairing Lover:Staring his eyes, and haggard was his look.
** 1851 April 9, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields:Then there was a pale, care-wrinkled woman, not old, but haggard, and already with streaks of gray among her hair, like silver ribbons; one of those women, naturally delicate, whom you at once recognize as worn to death by a brute—probably, a drunken brute—of a husband, and at least nine children.
** 1976, Joni Mitchell (lyrics and music), “Black Crow”, in Hejira:I looked at the morning / After being up all night / I looked at my haggard face in the bathroom light / I looked out the window / And I saw that ragged soul take flight
** 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:By the end of two weeks there isn't a county in England where he hasn't pledged his holiness six different ways — which is not to deny that intermittently he has visions of himself as a haggard apostle of the life renounced, converting beautiful women and millionaires to Christian poverty.
* (of an animal) Wild or untamed
    a haggard or refractory hawk

##### Derived terms

* haggardly
* haggardness

##### Translations

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#### Noun

haggard (plural haggards)
* (falconry) A hunting bird captured as an adult.
** 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:No, truly, Ursula, she is too disdainful; I know her spirits are as coy and wild As haggards of the rock.
** 1856, John Henry Walsh, Manual of British Rural Sports
    HAGGARDS may be trapped in this country but with the square-net, or the bow-net, but in either case great difficulty is experienced
* (falconry) A young or untrained hawk or falcon.
* (obsolete) A fierce, intractable creature.
** c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:I have loved this proud disdainful haggard.
* (obsolete) A hag.
** 1699, Samuel Garth, The Dispensary:In a dark Grott the baleful Haggard lay, Breathing black Vengeance, and infecting Day

### Etymology 2

From Old Norse heygarðr (“hay-yard”).

#### Noun

haggard (plural haggards)
* (dialect, Isle of Man, Ireland, Scotland) A stackyard, an enclosure on a farm for stacking grain, hay, etc.
    He tuk a slew [swerve] round the haggard

### References

* ↑ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “haggard”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
* ↑ Le Robert pour tous, Dictionnaire de la langue française, Janvier 2004, p. 547, haie
* ↑ Terence Patrick Dolan A Dictionary of Hiberno-English: The Irish Use of English (2006) s.v "haggard" p.118 →ISBN