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haggy

haggy adjective: resembling or characteristic of a hag (old or ugly woman or witch).

Adjective

haggy (comparative more haggy, superlative most haggy)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a hag (old or ugly woman or witch).
    • 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
    • [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
  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

Forms of haggy

comparativemore haggy
superlativemost haggy

Origin of haggy

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

Questions about haggy

What does haggy mean?
Haggy means resembling or characteristic of a hag (old or ugly woman or witch).
What part of speech is haggy?
Haggy is an adjective.

Words near haggy in the dictionary

  1. haggravated
  2. haggravates
  3. haggravating
  4. Haggs
  5. Haggstrom
  6. haggy
  7. Haghill
  8. Haghtanak
  9. hagi-
  10. Hagia Sophia
  11. hagiarchies

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