English Explanatory Dictionary

hag

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; a female wizard.
  2. An ugly old woman.
  3. An evil woman.
  4. A woman.
  5. A fury; a she-monster.
  6. 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.
  7. A hagdon or shearwater; one of various sea birds of the genus Puffinus.
  8. An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a person's hair.
  9. The fruit of the hagberry, Prunus padus.
  10. Sleep paralysis.
noun
  1. A small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or enclosed for felling, or which has been felled.
  2. 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.
verb
  1. To cut or erode (as) a hag (a hollow into moorland).
verb
  1. To harass; to weary with vexation.

Pronunciation

/ˈhæɡ/ [ˈhæɡ] En-au-hag.ogg /ˈheɪ̯ɡ/ [ˈheɪ̯ɡ]

Word forms

hag hags hagging hagged

Etymology

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.

Synonyms

magician ugly woman borer hagfish sleepmarken slime eel sucker myxinid hagdon haglet shearwater bird cherry hackberry

Related words

grough hag do

Derived words

boo hag fag hag glutinous hag grab hag hagborn hagged haggish haggy haglike hag moth hagridden hag-ridden hagride hagseed hagship hagsploitation hag-taper hag track night-hag night hag old hag syndrome moss-hag
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