hagged

[ hagd, hag-id ]

adjective

, British Dialect.

1. haglike.
2. haggard ( defs 1, 2 ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of hagged¹

First recorded in 1685–95; hag ¹ + -ed ³

Example Sentences

Well, the master's eye was accurate, and Matteo went to the town hospital with a broken wrist and a right hand almost hagged off.

From Project Gutenberg

As a maid in the Monday family's home, Sara pitied the "hampered and hagged" master of the house, Matt Monday, who though in his 40s was still "like a child, and kept from his rights as a man" by "his good mamma and his older sister."

From Time Magazine Archive

And thus yourselves, your hagged Wives And Children lead but wretched lives; Always in fear of being caught, Till commonly y'are starv'd or shot.

From Project Gutenberg

And following came Huey, with the statements that both of the pistols had been at Stair House since before Mr. Danvers's marriage, and that he had put one of them, with a new hagged flint, in the desk at which his grace was writing, within a few days of the murder.

From Project Gutenberg

The latter was advised by the god Vertumnus to enter the matrimonial state in the guise of a hagged old woman; but without success, till he appeared to her as a fair young man, and then she felt the power of love, and yielded to his wishes.

From Project Gutenberg