hagged

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English

Etymology 1

From hag +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

Adjective

hagged (comparative more hagged, superlative most hagged)

  1. Like a hag; ugly.
    Synonym: haglike
    • c. 1750, Thomas Gray, A Long Story (poem):
      The ghostly prudes with hagged face
      Already had condemned the sinner.
    • 1799, Robert Southey, Poems (poem), The Soldier's Wife:
      Woe-begone mother, half anger, half agony,
      As over thy shoulder thou lookest to hush the babe,
      Bleakly the blinding snow beats in thy hagged face.
    • 1962, Jack Kerouac, Big Sur, Chapter 2:
      The face of yourself you see in the mirror with its expression of unbearable anguish so hagged and awful with sorrow you cant even cry for a thing so ugly, so lost, no connection whatever with early perfection and therefore nothing to connect with tears or anything

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

Verb

hagged

  1. simple past and past participle of hag

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