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Etymology

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Noun

haggart (plural haggarts)

1. (Ireland, dated) A farmyard or small enclosed field; a vegetable patch or kitchen garden.
   • 1827 Gerald Griffin "Tales of the Munster Festivals" The London Magazine, December 1827; Vol.19, p.493:

     the very meadows in which he had assisted at harvest time in filling the load of sweet hay on the car, for the purpose of stacking in the haggart

   • 1856 'One of the rakes of Mallow' "Ireland thirty years since" The Sporting Magazine (London: Rogerson & Texford) May 1856, p.366:

     Jack escaped out of a back window which looked into the haggart, where the cows were kept every night.

   • 1879 Charles Kickham Knocknagow : or, The homes of Tipperary Chapter 7 "NORAH LAHY. THE OLD LINNET'S SONG." (Dublin : J. Duffy) 13th ed. (1887), p.50:

     Mr. Lowe remarked also the little ornamental wooden gate, the work of Mat's own hands, that led to the kitchen-garden invariably called the "haggart" in this part of the world which was fenced all round by a thick thorn hedge, with a little privet and holly intermixed here and there.

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?hæ?.?d/
• (US) enPR: h?g-?rd' IPA^(key): /?hæ?.?d/
• Rhymes: -æ??(?)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)

1. Looking exhausted, worried, or poor in condition
   • 1685, John Dryden, The Despairing Lover

     Staring his eyes, and haggard was his look.
2. (of an animal) Wild or untamed

Derived terms

• haggardly
• haggardness

Translations

Noun

haggard (plural haggards)

1. (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

2. (falconry) A young or untrained hawk or falcon.
3. (obsolete) A fierce, intractable creature.
4. (obsolete) A hag.

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Etymology 2

Old Norse heygarðr (“hay-yard”)

Noun

haggard (plural haggards)

1. (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]

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