What (who) is hag - definition
Hag
![1920 [[Arthur Rackham]] illustration for the Irish fairytale ''The Hag of the Mill''. "Now the Hag of the Mill was a bony, thin pole of a hag with odd feet."](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/11 The Hag of the Mill was a bony, thin pole of a hag with odd feet.jpg?width=200 "1920 [[Arthur Rackham]] illustration for the Irish fairytale ''The Hag of the Mill''. \"Now the Hag of the Mill was a bony, thin pole of a hag with odd feet.\"")
STOCK CHARACTER; A WIZENED OLD WOMAN, OFTEN A MALICIOUS WITCH
Hags; Witch (fairy tales)
A hag is a [old woman, or a kind of fairy] or [[goddess having the appearance of such a woman, often found in folklore and children's tales such as "Hansel and Gretel".Briggs, Katharine.
hag
STOCK CHARACTER; A WIZENED OLD WOMAN, OFTEN A MALICIOUS WITCH
Hags; Witch (fairy tales)
hag1
¦ noun a witch.
?an ugly old woman.
Derivatives
haggish adjective
Origin
ME: perh. from OE h?gtesse, hegtes, of unknown ultimate origin.
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hag2
¦ noun Scottish & N. English a soft place on a moor or a firm place in a bog.
Origin
ME: from ON h?gg 'gap', from h?ggva 'hack, hew'.
hag
STOCK CHARACTER; A WIZENED OLD WOMAN, OFTEN A MALICIOUS WITCH
Hags; Witch (fairy tales)
n.
Fury, beldam, she-monster, Jezebel, virago, vixen, ugly old woman.
Pronunciation examples for hag
1. Hag!
Hot Fuzz (2007)
2. That old hag hates my ass.
Gran Torino
3. l'm a bear hag.
And we call thus--
A Dirty Shame (2004)
4. Well, actually, I could probably make my own way up. Hag.
Hot Fuzz (2007)
5. ...when some Ministry hag comes up
and asks to see me license.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (2010)
Examples of use of hag
1. A former student at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hag...
2. Dr Ali El Hag Mohammed Deputy Secretary General The Popular Congress (Sudan
3. "They call her a werewolf, a witch, an old hag," Moresky said.
4. Nicky called her an old hag and she ended up speaking to her after," remembered Sam.
5. I saw other people mere whose legs hag to be cut off.