haggard

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  1. adjective Appearing worn and exhausted; gaunt.
  2. adjective Wild or distraught in appearance.
  3. adjective Wild and intractable. Used of a hawk in falconry.

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  1. French hagard, wild, from Old French, wild hawk, raptor, perhaps of Germanic origin.

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  1. Formerly also haggart, hagard; from Old French hagard, wild, strange, froward, contrary, cross, unsociable (faulcon hagard, a wild falcon), literally ‘of the wood,’ with suffix -ard, from Middle High German hag, German hag, a hedge, also a coppice, a wood (= Anglo-Saxon haga, English haw), + F. suffix.
  2. A corruption of hagged, q. v., by confusion with the formerly more common word haggard, q. v.
  3. Scots also haggart; prob. of Scandinavian origin, as if from hag = hay = yard = haw + gard, garth.
 

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/ˈhægərd/
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