Definitions for haghæg, hɑg

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

haghæg(n.)

  1. an ugly or slatternly old woman.

  2. a witch or sorceress.

Origin of hag:

1175–1225; ME hagge, OE *hægge, akin to OHG hagazissa witch

hag′gish(adj.)

hag*hæg, hɑg(n.)

  1. a bog.

    Category: British

  2. a firm spot in a bog.

    Category: British

* Scot..

Origin of hag:

1250–1300; ME: chasm < ON hǫgg a cut, ravine

Hag.

  1. Haggai.

    Category: Bible

Princeton's WordNet

  1. hag, beldam, beldame, witch, crone(noun)

    an ugly evil-looking old woman

  2. hagfish, hag, slime eels(noun)

    eellike cyclostome having a tongue with horny teeth in a round mouth surrounded by eight tentacles; feeds on dead or trapped fishes by boring into their bodies

Wiktionary

  1. hag(Noun)

    A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; also, a wizard.

  2. hag(Noun)

    An ugly old woman.

  3. hag(Noun)

    A fury; a she-monster.

  4. hag(Noun)

    An eel-like marine marsipobranch (Myxine glutinosa), allied to the lamprey. It has a suctorial mouth, with labial appendages, and a single pair of gill openings. It is the type of the order Hyperotreti. Called also hagfish, borer, slime eel, sucker, and sleepmarken.

  5. hag(Noun)

    The hagdon or shearwater.

  6. hag(Noun)

    An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a man's hair.

  7. hag(Noun)

    The fruit of the hagberry.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Hag(noun)

    a witch, sorceress, or enchantress; also, a wizard

  2. Hag(noun)

    an ugly old woman

  3. Hag(noun)

    a fury; a she-monster

  4. Hag(noun)

    an eel-like marine marsipobranch (Myxine glutinosa), allied to the lamprey. It has a suctorial mouth, with labial appendages, and a single pair of gill openings. It is the type of the order Hyperotpeta. Called also hagfish, borer, slime eel, sucker, and sleepmarken

  5. Hag(noun)

    the hagdon or shearwater

  6. Hag(noun)

    an appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a man's hair

  7. Hag(verb)

    to harass; to weary with vexation

  8. Hag(noun)

    a small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or inclosed for felling, or which has been felled

  9. Hag(noun)

    a quagmire; mossy ground where peat or turf has been cut


Translations for hag

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

hag(noun)

an ugly old woman.

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