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Definition hag
Etymology 1
From Middle English hagge, hegge (“demon, old woman”), shortening of Old English hægtesse, hægtes (“harpy, witch”), from Proto-Germanic *hagatusj? (compare Saterland Frisian Häkse (“witch”), Dutch heks, German Hexe (“witch”)), compounds of (1) *hagaz (“able, skilled”) (compare Old Norse hagr (“handy, skillful”), Middle High German behac (“pleasurable”)), from Proto-Indo-European *?ak- (compare Sanskrit ??????? (?aknóti, “he can”)), and (2) *tusj? (“witch”) (compare dialectal Norwegian tysja (“fairy, she-elf”)).
Noun
hag (plural hags)
- A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; a wizard.
- (derogatory) An ugly old woman.
- A fury; a she-monster.
- 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.
- (obsolete) An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a man's hair.
- The fruit of the hagberry, Prunus padus.
- (slang) sleep paralysis
Etymology 2
Scots hag (“to cut”), from Old Norse h?gg ‘cut, gap, breach’, derivative of h?ggva ‘to hack, hew’; compare English hew.
Noun
hag (plural hags)
- A small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or enclosed for felling, or which has been felled.
- A quagmire; mossy ground where peat or turf has been cut.
Etymology 3
From Proto-Germanic *hag(g)?nan (compare obsolete Dutch hagen ‘to torment, agonize’, Norwegian haga ‘to tire, weaken’).
Verb
hag (third-person singular simple present hags, present participle hagging, simple past and past participle hagged)
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