Hag vs Haggard - What's the difference?
hag | haggard |
A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; a wizard.
* (rfdate) Golding
(pejorative) An ugly old woman.
A fury; a she-monster.
A hagfish; an eel-like marine marsipobranch, , allied to the lamprey, with a suctorial mouth, labial appendages, and a single pair of gill openings.
A hagdon or shearwater.
An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a man's hair.
The fruit of the hagberry, Prunus padus .
To harass; to weary with vexation.
* L'Estrange
A small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or enclosed for felling, or which has been felled.
* Fairfax
A quagmire; mossy ground where peat or turf has been cut.
(Webster 1913)
Looking exhausted, worried, or poor in condition
* Dryden
Wild or untamed
(dialect, Isle of Mann, Ireland) A stackyard, an enclosure on a farm for stacking grain, hay, etc.
(falconry) A hunting bird captured as an adult.
* 1599 ,
*:No, truly, Ursula, she is too disdainful;
*:I know her spirits are as coy and wild
*:As haggards of the rock.
(falconry) A young or untrained hawk or falcon.
(obsolete) A fierce, intractable creature.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) A hag.
As nouns the difference between hag and haggard
is that hag is a witch, sorceress, or enchantress; a wizard or hag can be a small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or enclosed for felling, or which has been felled while haggard is (dialect|isle of mann|ireland) a stackyard, an enclosure on a farm for stacking grain, hay, etc.As a verb hag
is to harass; to weary with vexation.As a adjective haggard is
looking exhausted, worried, or poor in condition.hag
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) hagge, hegge 'demon, old woman', shortening of (etyl) '', ).1987, E. C. Polomé, R. Bergmann (editor), "Althochdeutsch ''hag(a)zussa'' 'Hexe': Versuch einer neuen Etymologie", ''Althochdeutsch 2 (Wörter und Namen. Forschungsgeschichte) , pages 1107-1112.Noun
(en noun)- [Silenus] that old hag .
- (Crashaw)
- (Blount)
Synonyms
* (witch or sorceress) * (ugly old woman) See also * (fury or she-monster) * (eel-like marine marsipobranch) borer, hagfish, sleepmarken, slime eel, sucker * (hagdon or shearwater) * (appearance of light and fire on mane or hair) * (fruit of the hagberry)Derived terms
* fag hagVerb
(hagg)- How are superstitious men hagged out of their wits with the fancy of omens.
Etymology 2
Scots ; compare English hack.Noun
(en noun)- This said, he led me over hoults and hags ; / Through thorns and bushes scant my legs I drew.
- (Dugdale)
References
Anagrams
* ----haggard
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Staring his eyes, and haggard was his look.
- Pale and haggard faces.
- A gradual descent into a haggard and feeble state.
- The years of hardship made her look somewhat haggard .
- a haggard or refractory hawk
Derived terms
* haggardly * haggardnessNoun
(en noun)- "He tuk a slew [swerve] round the haggard" [http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/fulltext/am1924/pt_s.htm]
- A "haggard" is a bird captured as an adult and therefore of unknown age; often, the law prohibits capturing birds of mating age.
Falconry Pro
- I have loved this proud disdainful haggard .
- (Garth)