hag
/hæɡ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.97 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; a female wizard.
noun
A fury; a she-monster.
noun
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.
noun
A hagdon or shearwater; one of various sea birds of the genus Puffinus.
Example Sentences
- "And that olde hag that with a staffe his staggering lymbes dooth stay"
- "Such unaccountable masses of shades and shadows, that at first you almost thought some ambitious young artist, in the time of the New England hags, had endeavored to delineate chaos bewitched."
- "The elder women were literally "old hags" - lean and shrivelled, and excessively ugly."
- "Two girls lived in the tepee with the old hag and her warrior son."
- "I don't plan to stop drinking. But... I don't wanna forget. I can't turn away anymore. So, if I'm gonna die, well, it might as well be driving my sword through the heart of that murderous hag."
- "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"
Etymology
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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /hæɡ/
- British English: /hæɡ/
Usage
- Derogatory
- American usage
- Slang
- Obsolete
- Uncountable
- Transitive verb