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hag1
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noun
1A witch.
‘This is a place where witches aren't green hags, flying broomsticks, and scaring children away.’- ‘I mean, doesn't everyone think Witches are mythical old hags who ride broomsticks and turn princes into frogs?’
- ‘We are little-known and therefore little-understood, and this is exacerbated by Pagans who insist on aligning us with mythical broomstick-flying wart-sporting hags.’
- ‘He was getting impatient and though she'd done almost everything to have every man despise her, she knew there were certain others who wouldn't care if she were a hag or a witch just to get her inheritance.’
- ‘You can see wicked witches, grinning goblins, and hallucinating hags!’
crone, old woman, witch, gorgonView synonyms- 1.1An ugly old woman.‘a fat old hag in a dirty apron’
- ‘And they look nothing like this now, the jaded old hags.’
- ‘At first, I found it harder to ignore the pleas originating from young children, women, and old hags.’
- ‘I had the vaguely presentable air crew, they had the old hags nearing retirement.’
- ‘A few old hags, had even used it as a necklace to accessorize with.’
- ‘After all the old hags we met before, this one actually has teeth.’
- ‘Maidens and old hags alike swooned in his presence.’
- ‘They were friends, but also colleagues, and the last thing she wanted was to get all the old hags in the school talking.’
- ‘I settled for Church and watched as these old hags praised Jesus like there was no tomorrow.’
- ‘Suddenly the doorman announces that an old crone, a hag palmist is at the door, demanding to tell the fortunes of the young and single women in the room.’
- ‘She had quickly adapted to the smoky atmosphere, but still was uncomfortable around the schizophrenic old woman; sometimes, she was the mad hag that she and Chrissey had met originally.’
crone, old woman, witch, gorgonView synonyms
2
short for hagfish- ‘As a first step toward an understanding of the molecular basis for the divergence of pigment patterns and speciation in cichlids, we cloned and characterized a cichlid homolog of the zebrafish hag gene.’
Origin
Middle English perhaps from Old English hægtesse, hegtes, related to Dutch heks and German Hexe ‘witch’, of unknown ultimate origin.
hag2
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noun
Scottish, Northern English1
(also peat hag)An overhang of peat.‘But so were the boulders and lumps of peat hag which pocked the scene.’- ‘This broad mass of peat hags and bog pools rises to over 680-metres at the head of Littondale.’
2A soft place on a moor or a firm place in a bog.
Origin
Middle English (denoting a gap in a cliff): from Old Norse hǫgg ‘gap’, from hǫggva ‘hack, hew’.
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