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haggy en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From hag (“old woman”) and hag (“hollow in a mire”), respectively, + -y.

Meanings

1. Resembling or characteristic of a hag (old or ugly woman or witch).
   • [I don't want to be] a haggy-looking old thing dying. I want to go with a little peace and dignity. 2012 April 13, David Wendell Moller, Dancing with Broken Bones: Poverty, Race, and Spirit-filled Dying in the Inner City, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 51:
   • ... a haggy cackle. 2014 March 18, Aaron Starmer, The Riverman, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 173:
   • A haggy pregnant woman, covering herself with her sleeve, was standing near the stove. (Can we date this quote?), Leo Tolstoy, The Landlord's Morning, Newcomb Livraria Press, →ISBN, page 66:
   • ... a haggy creature with the chubby son, who stops her gardening and stares every time we leave the house. 2013 February 12, Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius: A Memoir Based on a True Story, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
2. Marked by many hags (boggy hollows and gulches).
   • A haggy, benty, splashy moss,[…] 1881, David Thomson, Musings Among the Heather: Being Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, page 62:
   • Th' fairways are a' rough an' full' o' holes an' th' rough is a haggy wilderness. 1923, The Judge, page 14:

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