Noun: haggard
| Singular | haggard |
| Plural | haggards |
Sample Sentences
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No, truly, Ursula, she is too disdainful;
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I know her spirits are as coy and wild
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As haggards of the rock. [1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:]
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1856, John Henry Walsh, Manual of British Rural Sports
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HAGGARDS may be trapped in this country but with the square-net, or the bow-net, but in either case great difficulty is experienced
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I have loved this proud disdainful haggard. [c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:]
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In a dark Grott the baleful Haggard lay,
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Breathing black Vengeance, and infecting Day [1699, Samuel Garth, The Dispensary:]
Nouns inflected like haggard
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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”)) See: German Nouns '
Hag', French Nouns '
haie'.