hag
A witch, sorceress, or enchantressA witch, sorceress, or enchantress; a female wizard.
» One day I, too, would like to be a mean old hag.
Однажды я бы тоже хотела стать злой старой ведьмой.
Meaning
12 sensesA witch, sorceress, or enchantress; a female wizard.
Hexe
ве́дьмаvédʹma, колду́ньяkoldúnʹja
(derogatory)An ugly old woman.
Hexe, Vettel
карга́kargá, кики́мораkikímora, мы́мраmýmra
an ugly evil-looking old woman
(derogatory)An evil woman.
(US, derogatory, slang, sometimes)A woman.
A fury; a she-monster.
фу́рияfúrija
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.
The fruit of the hagberry, Prunus padus.
(slang, uncountable)Sleep paralysis.
(Northern England)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.
(obsolete)An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a person's hair.
Examples
6 sentencesOne day I, too, would like to be a mean old hag.
ruОднажды я бы тоже хотела стать злой старой ведьмой.
An old hag of 50 years made me lustful propositions; she wanted to kiss me.
Marie is an old hag.
Don't trust this hag!
Hagåtña is the capital of Guam.
ruХагатна - столица Гуама.
Translations
7 languagesBy meaning 3
By meaning 2
Origin
From Middle English hagge, hegge (“demon, old woman”), shortening of Old English hægtesse,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.
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”).
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Forms
plural: hags| Singular | hag |
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uncountable
Synonyms
18 synonymsWord family
21 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable