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Where does “haggard” come from?

Haggard comes from Old Norse heygarðr, a compound of hey (hay) and garðr (enclosure), originally denoting a fenced area for storing hay.

haggard (English): Looking exhausted, worried, or poor in condition;...

Definitions

  1. Looking exhausted, worried, or poor in condition;...

Ancestry of “haggard”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Frenchhaggard—

Words derived from “haggard”

  • haggardness
  • haggardly
Every word from Middle French haggard →