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Aug 1, 2008 This week's theme Words with hidden connections to animals This week's words popinjay croupier boustrophedon sommelier haggard Today's word in Visual Thesaurus Next week's theme Metaphorical descriptions of people Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg haggard PRONUNCIATION: (HAG-uhrd) MEANING: Looking gaunt or exhausted, as from fatigue, suffering, hunger, age, etc. ETYMOLOGY: Of uncertain origin, apparently from Old French hagard (wild falcon), perhaps influenced by the word hag. The word is still used for a hawk captured as an adult. USAGE: "The war photos [show] a haggard, sweaty, unshaven Marine sucking on a canteen during one of those hellacious South Pacific island battles of World War II." Peter Carlson; Flashes of Memory; Washington Post; Jun 8, 2008. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations. -Faith Baldwin, novelist (1893-1978)

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