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▪ I. haggy, a.1 [f. hag n.1 + -y1.] Of or pertaining to a hag. The sense of quot. 1654 is uncertain: it may belong to hag n.1 1 or 2.
1654M. Stevenson Occasions Off-spring 83 Didst thou devise This haggy look, to be thought weather wise? 1964S. Bellow Herzog (1965) 159 That bitch, Madeleine, whose face looks either beautiful or haggy. ▪ II. haggy, a.2 Chiefly Sc. [f. hag n.4 + -y1.] Boggy and full of holes.
1794Scots Mag. Oct. 624/1 The night was neither warm not [sic] dry, The road was rough and haggy. 1881D. Thomson Musings among Heather 62 He thocht he had yet tae cross, A haggy, benty, splashy moss. 1959D. D. C. P. Mould Peter's Boat vii. 113 This country of bare peat cut with haggy trenches. |