hag
Plural: hags
Noun
- an ugly evil-looking old woman
- eellike cyclostome having a tongue with horny teeth in a round mouth surrounded by eight tentacles; feeds on dead or trapped fishes by boring into their bodies
- A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; a female wizard.
- An ugly old woman.
- An evil woman.
- A woman over the age of 30 years.
- 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.
- An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a person's hair.
- The fruit of the hagberry, Prunus padus.
- Sleep paralysis.
- A small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or enclosed for felling, or which has been felled.
- A marshy hollow, especially an area of peat lying lower than surrounding moorland, formed by erosion of a gully or cutting and often having steep edges.
Verb
Verb Forms: hagged, hagging, hags
- To cut or chop roughly, often associated with hacking.
- To cut or erode (as) a hag (a hollow into moorland).
- To harass; to weary with vexation.
Examples
- He was tempted to HAG away at his tiles, but patience revealed a better word.
- – The trend, hagmaxxing, is when younger men pursue relationships with hags.
- – What is that hag trend that is going on?
Origin / 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.
Synonyms
beldam, beldame, crone, hagfish, slime eels, witch, bird cherry, borer, hackberry, hagdon, haglet, magician, myxinid, shearwater, sleepmarken, slime eel, sucker, ugly woman
Scrabble Score: 7
hag: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordhag: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
hag: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary