haggy

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1. Resembling or characteristic of a hag (old or ugly woman or witch).

   ... a haggy cackle.

   2014 March 18, Aaron Starmer, The Riverman, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 173

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   A haggy pregnant woman, covering herself with her sleeve, was standing near the stove.

   (Can we date this quote?), Leo Tolstoy, The Landlord's Morning, Newcomb Livraria Press, →ISBN, page 66

   [I don't want to be] a haggy-looking old thing dying. I want to go with a little peace and dignity.

   2012 April 13, David Wendell Moller, Dancing with Broken Bones: Poverty, Race, and Spirit-filled Dying in the Inner City, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 51

   ... a haggy creature with the chubby son, who stops her gardening and stares every time we leave the house.

   2013 February 12, Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius: A Memoir Based on a True Story, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN

2. Marked by many hags (boggy hollows and gulches).

   A haggy, benty, splashy moss,[…]

   1881, David Thomson, Musings Among the Heather: Being Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, page 62

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   Th' fairways are a' rough an' full' o' holes an' th' rough is a haggy wilderness.

   1923, The Judge, page 14