Hag

Quick meaning: Hag is a noun meaning A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; a female wizard.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (derogatory) An ugly old woman.
2. (derogatory) An evil woman.
3. (US, slang, sometimes derogatory) A woman.
4. A fury; a she-monster.
5. A hagdon or shearwater; one of various sea birds of the genus Puffinus.
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. (obsolete) An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a person's hair.

Example Sentences

And that olde hag that with a staffe his staggering lymbes dooth stay

The elder women were literally "old hags" - lean and shrivelled, and excessively ugly.

This said, he led me over hoults and hags; / Through thorns and bushes scant my legs I drew

Fourth of the cursed knot of hags is she / Or rather all the other three in one; / Hell's shop of slaughter she does oversee, / And still assist the execution

Word Forms

• hags
• hagging
• hagged

Synonyms for hag

Depending on context, synonyms include magician, borer, hagfish, sleepmarken, sucker, myxinid.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include witch, crone, beldame, beldam, hagfish, sorceress.

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