hag /hæɡ/noun 13verb 2forms 3 noun13 •(offensive) an old woman who looks uglyThe elder women were literally "old hags" - lean and shrivelled, and excessively ugly. — 1887 •A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; a female wizard.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. — 1851 •A fury; a she-monster.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 — 1646 •(offensive) An evil woman.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. — 2017 •(slang, offensive) A woman. •(slang) Sleep paralysis. •a wet hollow that water has worn into the peat of a moor, and that often has steep sidesAnd they likewise ordained […] that all the warp should be thrown into the Common wayes, to fill up haggs and lakes, where need was, upon a great penalty, where it should ly neer the Common rode. — 1662 •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. •(Northern-England) a small marked-off area of trees that are to be cut down or have already been cutThis said, he led me over hoults and hags; / Through thorns and bushes scant my legs I drew — 1845 •a sea bird that flies low over the waves on long narrow wings, also called a shearwater •a small black bitter cherry, the fruit of the bird cherry tree •(US, slang) Acronym of Hot ass grandma. •(no longer used) a glow that looks like fire, seen on the mane of a horse or in someone's hair verb2 •To harass; to weary with vexation.How are Superstitious Men Hagg'd Out of their Wits and Senses, with the Fancy of Omens, Forebodings, Old Wives Tales, and Visions — 1692 •To cut or erode (as) a hag (a hollow into moorland).Covenanters too met often on our moss-hagged moors. — 1956 formshagged · hagging · hags
