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haggard

hag·gard

UK/ˈhæɡ.əd/ US/ˈhæɡ.ɚd/ uncommon obsolete
adjective (2) noun (1)

adjective

1.

showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering

  • “looking careworn as she bent over her mending”
  • “her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness”
  • “that raddled but still noble face”
  • “shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face” Charles Dickens
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2.

very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold

  • “emaciated bony hands”
  • “a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys”
  • “eyes were haggard and cavernous”
  • “small pinched faces”
  • “kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration”
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Origin

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”))

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