haggard vs worn what difference
what is difference between haggard and worn
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
Etymology
By analogy to past participles like torn from tear and sworn from swear.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /wɔɹn/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /wɔːn/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /wo(ː)ɹn/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /woən/
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
- Homophone: warn (accents with the horse-hoarse merger)
Adjective
worn (comparative more worn, superlative most worn)
- damaged and shabby as a result of much use
Translations
Verb
worn
- past participle of wear
Derived terms
- forworn
- outworn
- worn out
Anagrams
- Norw., rown
Middle English
Verb
worn
- Alternative form of weren
Old English
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /worn/, [worˠn]
Noun
worn m
- great many, multitude
- crowd, swarm, band, flock
References
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898), “worn”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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