haggard

adj

Etymology: 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”))

1. Looking exhausted, worried, or poor in condition

   “Pale and haggard faces.”

   “A gradual descent into a haggard and feeble state.”

2. Wild or untamed

   “a haggard or refractory hawk”

name

1. A surname.
2. An unincorporated community in Gray County, Kansas, United States.

noun

Etymology: From Old Norse heygarðr (“hay-yard”).

1. A stackyard, an enclosure on a farm for stacking grain, hay, etc.

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