hag Hear it!

hag¹ Definition

hag (hag)

noun

  1. Obsolete a female demon or evil spirit
  2. a witch; enchantress
  3. an ugly, often vicious, old woman
  4. hagfish

Etymology: ME hagge, a witch, hag, contr. < OE hægtes < haga, hedge, akin to Ger hexe (OHG hagazussa): sense comparable to ON tūnritha, lit., hedge rider, hence witch

hag² Definition

hag (hag, häg)

transitive verb

to cut; hack

Etymology: Scot < ME haggen < Anglo-N form of ON höggva, to cut, hack, akin to OE heawan, hew

noun

    1. a cutting of wood
    2. felled trees
    1. the edge of a cutting in a peat bog
    2. a marsh or marshy spot
    3. a firm spot in a bog or marsh

Etymology: < Anglo-N form of ON högg, a cutting, chopping < base of the vt.

Hag Definition

Hag

Bible Haggai

hag Synonyms

hag

n.

old woman, crone, witch, virago, vixen, withered old woman, shrew, ogress, hellhag, hellcat, grandmother, fishwife, gorgon, harridan, old witch, Xanthippe, Medusa, battle-ax*, old cat*; see also witch, woman 1.

hag Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • wrinkle: We think of an old, wrinkled hag with a nasty wart on her nose.
  • have: H by Heidi & Erin ( aged 12 ) Heidi's habitat has hairy hags.
  • meet: On his way back to his death, he meets an old hag in the forest.
  • wither: Still dressed as a child, the midget bore the face if a withered hag.

Preposition: in

  • closet: Perhaps the hag in the closet is a snake handler hoping Theresa's poison will supply a serum.
  • tub: Cut back to the hag in the tub, now rising up.

Adjective modifier

  • ugly: The ugly old hag has a valid point, against Hilda, the noble Dane.
  • old: The ugly old hag has a valid point, against Hilda, the noble Dane.
  • hideous: On the key they are faced with the choice; a royal barge or one manned by a hideous hag.
  • evil: They actually lived a fairy tale, complete with curses, monsters and an evil hag in a tower.
  • blue-faced: Top C Cailleach Bheur The Scottish blue-faced winter hag, probably once worshiped as the crone aspect of the earth mother.
  • black: I understand he is the slave of that black hag of a wife.

Preposition: with

  • vagina: Logged....So she uttered her magic words and once again she was a wrinkled old hag with a vagina instead of a sledge... .

Noun used with modifier

  • peat: Where the track ends is the point at which the ground becomes very hard to cross due to the peat hags.
  • night: Delilah is the " Goddess Night " , night being equated with the night hag, Lilith, ultimately the Babylonian Goddess Ninlil blackened.
  • midnight: How now you secret, black, & midnight Hags?
hag Quotes

In the deep windings of the grove no more The hag obscene, and grisly phantom dwell; Nor in the fall of mountain-stream, or roar Of winds, is heard the angry spirit's yell.

—Beattie,James

While I have a tongue I'll abuse you, you most inimitable periphery. Look at her, boys! there she standsöa convicted perpendicular in petticoats! There's contamination in her circumference, and she trembles with guilt down to the extremities of her corollaries. Ah! you're found out, you rectilineal antecedent, and equiangular old hag! 'Tis with you the devil will flyaway, you porter-swiping similitude of the bisection of a vortex!

—O'Connell, Daniel known as  the Liberator

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