haggard

Meanings

Adjective

• Looking exhausted, worried, or poor in condition
• Wild or untamed

Noun

• A hunting bird captured as an adult.
• A young or untrained hawk or falcon.
• A fierce, intractable creature.
• A hag.
• A stackyard, an enclosure on a farm for stacking grain, hay, etc.

Origin

• From Middle French haggard, from Old French faulcon hagard ( > French hagard ("dazed")), from Middle High German hag ("coppice") ( > archaic German Hag ("hedge, grove")). Akin to Frankish *hagia ( > French haie ("hedge"))
• Old Norse heygarðr ("hay-yard")