hag

Etymology 1
From, , shortening of , , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. .

Noun

 * 1) A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; a wizard.
 * 2)  An ugly old woman.
 * 3)  An evil woman.
 * 4) A fury; a she-monster.
 * 5) A hagfish; one of various eel-like fish of the family, allied to the lamprey, with a suctorial mouth, labial appendages, and a single pair of gill openings.
 * 6) A hagdon or shearwater; one of various sea birds of the genus.
 * 7)  An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a person's hair.
 * 8) The fruit of the hagberry,.
 * 9)  Sleep paralysis.
 * 1) A hagfish; one of various eel-like fish of the family, allied to the lamprey, with a suctorial mouth, labial appendages, and a single pair of gill openings.
 * 2) A hagdon or shearwater; one of various sea birds of the genus.
 * 3)  An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a person's hair.
 * 4) The fruit of the hagberry,.
 * 5)  Sleep paralysis.
 * 1)  Sleep paralysis.

Synonyms

 * See Thesaurus:magician
 * See Thesaurus:ugly woman

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
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 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:, , , sugota, antaruxa
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ingrian: noita
 * Irish:, bean feasa, seanchailleach
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese:
 * Latin: lamia, strīga
 * Macedonian: ве́штерка, ве́штица
 * Manx: caillagh ny gueshag, gueshag
 * Norwegian: utyske
 * Occitan:
 * Plautdietsch: Hakjs
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,


 * Bulgarian:
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 * Czech: babizna,
 * Dutch: ,lelijk wijf
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:, , , ,
 * Galician:
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Ingrian: akka
 * Irish:
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese:, ばばあ
 * Korean: 마귀할멈
 * Macedonian: ве́штерка, ста́рица
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, , , , ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Vietnamese: con mẹ


 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * Macedonian: фу́рија
 * Portuguese:
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 * Bulgarian: прилепало
 * Finnish:
 * Irish:

Etymology 2
From (denoting a gap in a cliff), from, derivative of. Compare 🇨🇬, Old Swedish.

Noun

 * 1)  A small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or enclosed for felling, or which has been felled.
 * 2) 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.
 * 1) 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.

Derived terms

 * moss-hag

Etymology 3
From, from (compare obsolete 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬).

Verb

 * 1)  To harass; to weary with vexation.

Conjunction

 * 1) and

Conjunction

 * 1) and

Synonyms

 * ha

Etymology 1
From, from. Compare 🇨🇬, above. Noun attested from the 14th century in Older Scots, with the verb from c. 1400.

Noun

 * 1) a notch; a pit or break
 * 2) a stroke of an axe or similar instrument
 * 3) the felling of timber; the quantity of wood felled
 * 4) a quagmire from which peat or turf is cut

Verb

 * 1) to chop (wood); to hack; to dig out (coal etc.)
 * 2)  to make a hash of (something)
 * 3) to cut down trees and prepare timber
 * 1) to cut down trees and prepare timber

Etymology 2
. Perhaps from Etymology 1 above, “to hack”, thus “castrate”. Compare. Attested from the 19th century.

Noun

 * 1) an ox
 * 2) a cattleman, one who raises cattle or oxen

Etymology 3
From. Attested from the 20th century.

Verb

 * 1) to hinder; to impede