hagged
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhæɡɪd/
- Rhymes: -æɡɪd
Adjective
hagged (comparative more hagged, superlative most hagged)
- Like a hag; ugly.
- Synonym: haglike
- c. 1750, Thomas Gray, A Long Story (poem):
- The ghostly prudes with hagged face
Already had condemned the sinner.
- 1799, Robert Southey, Poems (poem), The Soldier's Wife:
- Woe-begone mother, half anger, half agony,
As over thy shoulder thou lookest to hush the babe,
Bleakly the blinding snow beats in thy hagged face.
- 1962, Jack Kerouac, Big Sur, Chapter 2:
- The face of yourself you see in the mirror with its expression of unbearable anguish so hagged and awful with sorrow you cant even cry for a thing so ugly, so lost, no connection whatever with early perfection and therefore nothing to connect with tears or anything
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hæɡd/
- Rhymes: -æɡd
References
- “hagged”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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