hagged, a. Now dial.
(hægd, ˈhægɪd)
[A late formation from hag n.1: prob. influenced by haggard, with which it runs together in sense 2. Perh. in some cases influenced by hag v.2]
1. a. Bewitched. b. Witch-like, hag-like. ? Obs.
| a 1700 B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Hagged, Lean, Witched, Half-Starved. 1706 E. Ward Hud. Rediv. I. v. 14 Who grin'd and look'd (the Lord defend her) As hagged as the Witch of Endor. 1765 Gray Long Story 129 The ghostly prudes with hagged face. 1817 Southey Let. 28 May in Life & Corr. IV.. 266 [French women] appear to pass at once from youth to hagged old age. |
2. Lean, gaunt; haggard; worn-out, fagged.
| 1694 R. L'Estrange Fables 66 A Hagged Carrion of a Wolfe. a 1700 [see 1]. 1741 Richardson Pamela (1824) I. 62 My red eyes and my hagged looks. 1752 Carte Hist. Eng. III. 312 To see..how hagged and battered she was grown. 1814 Southey Roderick Poet. Wks. 1838 IX. 22 Through the streets he went With haggëd mien. 1860 Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. xviii, Thou look'st hagged at times, and folk'll see it, and talk about thee. |