hag.
A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; a female wizard.
Meaning & usage
A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; a female wizard.
An ugly old woman.
An evil woman.
A woman.
A fury; a she-monster.
A hagfish; one of various eel-like fish of the family Myxinidae, allied to the lamprey, with a suctorial mouth, labial appendages, and a single pair of gill openings.
A hagdon or shearwater; one of various sea birds of the genus Puffinus.
An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a person's hair.
The fruit of the hagberry, Prunus padus.
Sleep paralysis.
Acronym of Hot ass grandma.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English hagge, hegge (“demon, old woman”), shortening of Old English hægtesse, hægtes (“harpy, witch”), from Proto-West Germanic *hagatussjā. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Häkse (“witch”), Dutch heks, German Hexe (“witch”). Doublet of hex.
A small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or enclosed for felling, or which has been felled.
A marshy hollow, especially an area of peat lying lower than surrounding moorland, formed by erosion of a gully or cutting and often having steep edges.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English hag (denoting a gap in a cliff), from Old Norse hǫgg (“cut, gap, breach”), derivative of hǫggva (“to hack, hew”). Compare English hew, Old Swedish hug (“blow, stroke”).
To cut or erode (as) a hag (a hollow into moorland).
Where this word comes from
From Middle English hag (denoting a gap in a cliff), from Old Norse hǫgg (“cut, gap, breach”), derivative of hǫggva (“to hack, hew”). Compare English hew, Old Swedish hug (“blow, stroke”).
To harass; to weary with vexation.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English haggen, from Proto-Germanic *hag(g)ōnan (compare obsolete Dutch hagen (“to torment, agonize”), Norwegian haga (“to tire, weaken”)).
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