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noun haɡhæɡ 1A witch. Example sentencesExamples - The old hag turned my sister into a flea!
- Accompanying them was an old hag with a witches hat and long stringy green, white and gold hair.
- She finally lost her temper and turned into this thin old hag wearing a black dress.
- One of the stories featured a mad old hag who lived in a cave in the North of England several hundred years ago.
- 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.
- I am a magician, not some raggedy old hag who lives for dark magic!
- I mean, doesn't everyone think Witches are mythical old hags who ride broomsticks and turn princes into frogs?
- I refuse to just lie around and do nothing like a decrepit old hag!
- While some sleep-loss victims state that the Old Hag actually appeared to them as a demon-faced woman with long gray hair other descriptions of the same experience vary.
- You can see wicked witches, grinning goblins, and hallucinating hags!
- As children we are told stories about the ugly old Witch hag that would bake children into gingerbread.
- An old hag of a witch was approaching, her walk was staggered and she had enough warts on her nose so that you didn't know there was even a nose there.
- 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.
- Today, the typical witch is generally portrayed as an old hag in a black robe, wearing a pointed black cap and flying on a broomstick across a full moon.
- This is a place where witches aren't green hags, flying broomsticks, and scaring children away.
- You know, there's those stereotypes of the evil old hag and this and that.
- His second ordeal is to be turned into an old hag, disguised in the clothes of an old aunt reputed to be a witch in order to escape from Mr F again.
- One being that he fell in love with a mere human who so happened to be a maid for that old hag.
- I must admit, I was expecting an ugly old hag with a diseased or pale face… so what I saw startled me.
- That old hag will haunt me for the rest of my existence.
- Resonant of medieval folk tales, it conjures up the image of a wizened old hag casting spells on innocent children lost in a tangle of forests.
Synonyms crone, old woman, witch, gorgon - 1.1 An ugly old woman.
a fat old hag in a dirty apron Example sentencesExamples - 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.
- At first, I found it harder to ignore the pleas originating from young children, women, and old hags.
- Maidens and old hags alike swooned in his presence.
- I had the vaguely presentable air crew, they had the old hags nearing retirement.
- I settled for Church and watched as these old hags praised Jesus like there was no tomorrow.
- 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.
- And they look nothing like this now, the jaded old hags.
- After all the old hags we met before, this one actually has teeth.
- A few old hags, had even used it as a necklace to accessorize with.
- They were friends, but also colleagues, and the last thing she wanted was to get all the old hags in the school talking.
Synonyms crone, old woman, witch, gorgon
2 short for hagfish Example sentencesExamples - 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.
Derivatives adjective ˈhaɡɪʃˈhæɡɪʃ The haggish woman stepped forward, ‘we must move quickly.’ Example sentencesExamples - The haggish woman looked over her shoulder.
- Their father's mother worked a factory job leaving the two sisters with their haggish great-grandmother.
- You two would do good to be careful of the few haggish folk.
- Yeah, Debbie, Marla was a real blonde - unlike your haggish self.
Origin Middle English: perhaps from Old English hægtesse, hegtes, related to Dutch heks and German Hexe 'witch', of unknown ultimate origin. This word used disparagingly (old hag) is literally ‘an evil spirit in female form, a witch’: it derives perhaps from Old English hægtesse, hegtes, related to Dutch heks and German Hexe ‘witch’, source of hex (early 19th century).
Rhymes bag, blag, brag, Bragg, crag, dag, drag, flag, gag, jag, lag, mag, nag, quag, rag, sag, scrag, slag, snag, sprag, stag, swag, tag, wag, zag noun haɡhæɡ Northern English, Scottish 1An overhang of peat. Example sentencesExamples - 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'. nounhaɡhæɡ 1A witch, especially one in the form of an ugly old woman (often used as a term of disparagement for a woman) a fat old hag in a dirty apron Example sentencesExamples - One being that he fell in love with a mere human who so happened to be a maid for that old hag.
- Resonant of medieval folk tales, it conjures up the image of a wizened old hag casting spells on innocent children lost in a tangle of forests.
- His second ordeal is to be turned into an old hag, disguised in the clothes of an old aunt reputed to be a witch in order to escape from Mr F again.
- Today, the typical witch is generally portrayed as an old hag in a black robe, wearing a pointed black cap and flying on a broomstick across a full moon.
- I must admit, I was expecting an ugly old hag with a diseased or pale face… so what I saw startled me.
- One of the stories featured a mad old hag who lived in a cave in the North of England several hundred years ago.
- 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.
- While some sleep-loss victims state that the Old Hag actually appeared to them as a demon-faced woman with long gray hair other descriptions of the same experience vary.
- 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?
- She finally lost her temper and turned into this thin old hag wearing a black dress.
- As children we are told stories about the ugly old Witch hag that would bake children into gingerbread.
- Accompanying them was an old hag with a witches hat and long stringy green, white and gold hair.
- 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.
- An old hag of a witch was approaching, her walk was staggered and she had enough warts on her nose so that you didn't know there was even a nose there.
- You know, there's those stereotypes of the evil old hag and this and that.
- The old hag turned my sister into a flea!
- You can see wicked witches, grinning goblins, and hallucinating hags!
- That old hag will haunt me for the rest of my existence.
- I refuse to just lie around and do nothing like a decrepit old hag!
- I am a magician, not some raggedy old hag who lives for dark magic!
Synonyms crone, old woman, witch, gorgon 2 short for hagfish Example sentencesExamples - 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. nounhaɡhæɡ Scottish, Northern English 1An overhang of peat. Example sentencesExamples - This broad mass of peat hags and bog pools rises to over 680-metres at the head of Littondale.
- But so were the boulders and lumps of peat hag which pocked the scene.
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’. |