• (British) IPA: /ˈhæɡ.əd/
• (America) enPR: hăg-ərd' IPA: /ˈhæɡ.ɚd/

haggard

1. Looking exhausted, worried, or poor in condition

   • Staring his eyes, and haggard was his look.

   Pale and haggard faces.
   A gradual descent into a haggard and feeble state.
   The years of hardship made her look somewhat haggard.
2. Wild or untamed

   a haggard or refractory hawk

• French: hagard
• German: abgespannt, ausgezehrt, abgezehrt, mitgenommen, verhärmt, ausgemergelt, abgehärmt, gezeichnet, fertig (colloquial)
• Italian: emaciato, consunto, macilento, magro, mingherlino, smunto, tutta pelle
• Portuguese: abatido
• Russian: измождённый
• Spanish: consumido, macilento, trasojado, demacrado

• German: wild, ungezähmt, ungebändigt
• Italian: selvatico, selvaggio
• Portuguese: selvagem
• Russian: неприручённый

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.

2. (falconry) A young or untrained hawk or falcon.
3. (obsolete) A fierce, intractable creature.
   • c. 1590–1592, William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act IV, scene ii]:

     I have loved this proud disdainful haggard.

4. (obsolete) A hag.

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. Surname
2. An unincorporated community in Gray County, Kansas.