Haggard vs Groggy - What's the difference?
haggard | groggy |
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.
Slowed or weakened, as by drink, sleepiness, etc.
As adjectives the difference between haggard and groggy
is that haggard is looking exhausted, worried, or poor in condition while groggy is slowed or weakened, as by drink, sleepiness, etc.As a noun haggard
is (dialect|isle of mann|ireland) a stackyard, an enclosure on a farm for stacking grain, hay, etc.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)
References
groggy
English
Adjective
(er)- The medicine made him groggy and irritable.