haggy
adjective
haggy is an adjective meaning “Resembling or characteristic of a hag (old or ugly woman or witch)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-A-G-G-Y, and it appears about once in every 78 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does haggy mean?
adjective
- 1
Resembling or characteristic of a hag (old or ugly woman or witch).
- 2
Marked by many hags (boggy hollows and gulches).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce haggy?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-haggy.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of haggy
- more haggy comparative
- most haggy superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is haggy?
Haggy appears about once in every 78 million words in written English, the 279,513th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does haggy come from?
From hag (“old woman”) and hag (“hollow in a mire”), respectively, + -y.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).