haggard vs raddled what difference
what is difference between haggard and raddled
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈhæɡ.əd/
- (US) enPR: hăg-ərd’ IPA(key): /ˈhæɡ.ɚd/
- Rhymes: -æɡə(ɹ)d
Etymology 1
From Middle French haggard, from Old French faulcon hagard (“wild falcon”) ( > French hagard (“dazed”)), from Middle High German hag (“coppice”) ( > archaic German Hag (“hedge, grove”)). Akin to Frankish *hagia ( > French haie (“hedge”))
Adjective
haggard (comparative more haggard, superlative most haggard)
- Looking exhausted, worried, or poor in condition
- 1685, John Dryden, The Despairing Lover
- Staring his eyes, and haggard was his look.
- 1685, John Dryden, The Despairing Lover
- (of an animal) Wild or untamed
Derived terms
- haggardly
- haggardness
Translations
Noun
haggard (plural haggards)
- (falconry) A hunting bird captured as an adult.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 3 Scene 1
- No, truly, Ursula, she is too disdainful;
- I know her spirits are as coy and wild
- As haggards of the rock.
- 1856, John Henry Walsh, Manual of British Rural Sports
- HAGGARDS may be trapped in this country but with the square-net, or the bow-net, but in either case great difficulty is experienced
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 3 Scene 1
- (falconry) A young or untrained hawk or falcon.
- (obsolete) A fierce, intractable creature.
- (obsolete) A hag.
- 1699, Samuel Garth, The Dispensary
- In a dark Grott the baleful Haggard lay,
Breathing black Vengeance, and infecting Day
- In a dark Grott the baleful Haggard lay,
- 1699, Samuel Garth, The Dispensary
Etymology 2
Old Norse heygarðr (“hay-yard”)
Noun
haggard (plural haggards)
- (dialect, Isle of Man, Ireland, Scotland) A stackyard, an enclosure on a farm for stacking grain, hay, etc.
- He tuk a slew [swerve] round the haggard [1]
References
English
Adjective
raddled (comparative more raddled, superlative most raddled)
- Worn-out and broken-down.
- 1890, Henry James, The Tragic Muse.
- In the end her divine voice would crack, screaming to foreign ears and antipodal barbarians, and her clever manner would lose all quality, simplified to a few unmistakable knock-down dodges. Then she would be at the fine climax of life and glory, still young and insatiate, but already coarse, hard and raddled, with nothing left to do and nothing left to do it with, the remaining years all before her and the raison d’etre all behind. It would be curious and magnificent and grotesque.
- 1890, Henry James, The Tragic Muse.
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:weak or Thesaurus:deteriorated
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