haggyadj.1
/ˈhaɡi/, U.S. /ˈhæɡi/ Of, resembling, or characteristic of a hag.
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the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > ugliness > [adjective] > of or relating to hag
hag-likea1635
haggy1654
1654 M. Stevenson Occasions Off-spring 22 Snaky lockt and old. O come not then neare mee, your haggy looks skar mee.
1998 Face Apr. 189/1 Her haggy and bitter old aunt, Ms Dinsmoor.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
haggyadj.2
/ˈhaɡi/, U.S. /ˈhæɡi/, Scottish English /ˈhaɡɪ/ Chiefly Scottish.
Of ground: broken, rough, uneven, boggy; esp. (of peat moorland) cut or eroded into patches of soft bog, drainage gulleys, and areas or outcrops of firm ground (cf. hag n.2 2, peat hag n. at peat n.1 Compounds 2).
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [adjective]
fen-lichc1000
fennyc1000
mooryOE
marshya1382
marshlyc1410
moorisha1492
queachy?a1500
marish1549
plashya1552
foggy?1555
fen-like1561
undrained1573
fennish1577
boggy1587
paludious1595
wealy1601
marishy1607
snapy1607
uliginous1610
quagmiry1623
paludiate1632
boggish1633
pooly1652
swampy1661
spouty1677
gouty1686
pondy1687
morassy1699
sloppy1699
lairy17..
soggya1722
swampish1725
splashy1727
squashy1751
haggy1765
gaulty1784
slumpy1823
sumpy1824
paludine1852
paludic1854
paludinal1856
paludian1860
paludinous1866
paludal1871
paludial1875
morassic1893
muskeggy1894
swamped1899
1765 Petition of Charles Duke of Queensbury 19 July 11 The said march runs by pits across some haggy moss ground south-eastward into the said runner, which goes through the Highlaw-bog, where a pit is made.
1794 Scots Mag. Oct. 624/1 The night was neither warm not [sic] dry, The road was rough and haggy.
1811 J. MacDonald Gen. View Agric. Hebrides App. 798 I had..tried about an acre of the most rutty and haggy part of the moss, by first levelling and trenching it with the spade, [etc.].
1840 Mechanics' Mag. 25 Apr. 567/1 The most haggy and worst turnpike roads that I ever saw.
1881 D. Thomson Musings among Heather 62 He thocht he had yet tae cross, A haggy, benty, splashy moss.
1943 G. K. Fraser Peat Deposits of Scotl.: Pt. I (Geol. Surv. Great Brit.) (Wartime Pamphlet No. 36) 48 Rain, frost and wind all help to produce this type of peat topography... Peat erosion and the formation of haggy ground also result from ordinary stream recession.
2017 M. Kitson Sal (e-book ed.) In some places it was haggy and there were wee troughs full of wet peat and in some places we squelched over sphagnum moss.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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