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hagged en · ADJ · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /ˈhæɡɪd/

Etymology

From hag + -ed.

Meanings

  1. Like a hag; ugly.
    • The face of yourself you see in the mirror with its expression of unbearable anguish so hagged and awful with sorrow you cant even cry for a thing so ugly, so lost, no connection whatever with early perfection and therefore nothing to connect with tears or anything 1962, Jack Kerouac, Big Sur, Chapter 2:
    • The ghostly prudes with hagged face Already had condemned the sinner. c. 1750, Thomas Gray, A Long Story (poem):
    • Woe-begone mother, half anger, half agony, As over thy shoulder thou lookest to hush the babe, Bleakly the blinding snow beats in thy hagged face. 1799, Robert Southey, Poems (poem), The Soldier's Wife:

Forms

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most hagged Degree=Sup lexicographic
more hagged Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Synonyms

haglike

hagged en · VERB · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • /hæɡd/

Etymology

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Meanings

  1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of hag
    form of hag