Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - haggard
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Someone who looks haggard has a tired expression and shadows under their eyes, especially because they are ill or have not had enough sleep. He was pale and a bit haggard... ADJ ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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I. adjective Etymology: Middle French hagard Date: 1567 1. of a hawk not tamed 2. a. wild in appearance b. having a worn or emaciated appearance ; gaunt ~ faces looked up sadly from out of the straw — W. M. Thackeray • ~ly adverb • ~ness noun II. noun Date: 1567 1. an adult hawk caught wild 2. obsolete an intractable person HAGGARD biographical name Sir (Henry) Rider 1856-1925 English novelist HAGGARDLY adverb see haggard I ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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adj. & n. --adj. 1 looking exhausted and distraught, esp. from fatigue, worry, privation, etc. 2 (of a hawk) caught and trained as an adult. --n. a haggard hawk. Derivatives haggardly adv. haggardness n. Etymology: F hagard, of uncert. orig.: later infl. by HAG(1) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. охот. сокол, пойманный взрослым 2. изможденный, измученный, худой, загнанный haggard look —- изможденный вид with haggard eyes —- с ввалившимися глазами 3. охот. пойманный взрослым (о соколе) 4. охот. дикий, неприрученный (особ. о соколе) ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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- 1580, from M.Fr. haggard, probably from O.Fr. faulcon hagard "wild falcon," lit. "falcon of the woods," from M.H.G. hag "hedge, copse, wood," from P.Gmc. *khag-. Sense perhaps reinforced by Low Ger. hager "gaunt, haggard." Originally "wild, unruly," sense of "haunted expression" first recorded 1697, that of "careworn" first recorded 1853. Sense infl. by association with hag. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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