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Definition of Hagged
1. a. Like a hag; lean; ugly.
Definition of Hagged
1. Adjective. Like a hag; lean; ugly. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hagged
1. hag [v] - See also: hag
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hagged
Literary usage of Hagged
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1893)
"NW hagged. Haggard, worn out, exhausted-looking. ... 'Her've a had a lot to
contend wi' to- year, and her's hagged to death wi't aal. ..."
2. A Glossary of Words Used in the County of Wiltshire by George Edward Dartnell, Edward Hungerford Goddard (1893)
"NW hagged. Haggard, worn out, exhausted-looking. ... 'Her've a had a lot to
contend wi' to- year, and her 's hagged to death wi't aal. ..."
3. The Poems of Mr. Gray by Thomas Gray, Gilbert Wakefield (1786)
"... prudes with hagged * face Already had condemn'd the finner: My Lady rofe, and
with a grace— She fmil'dj and bid him come to dinner f. ..."
4. Belgravia by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1875)
"He draws us a series of powerfully-graphic pictures of the mountains that he
traversed; the valleys he explored; the big game that he hagged, and the manner ..."
5. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)
"hagged is emaciated, scraggy like a witch, with sunken eyes. A hagged canon of
a wolf and a jolly sort of dog with good flesh upon 's back fell into company ..."
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