hag
IPA: hˈæg
noun
- A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; a wizard.
- (derogatory) An ugly old woman.
- (derogatory) An evil woman.
- 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.
- (obsolete) An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a person's hair.
- The fruit of the hagberry, Prunus padus.
- (uncountable, slang) Sleep paralysis.
- (Northern England) 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
- (transitive) To harass; to weary with vexation.
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Examples of "hag" in Sentences
- Hag offspring are always female.
- Compare fag hag and slash fandom.
- Hags live alone or in coveys of three.
- These hags are found in the sublittoral zone.
- She is known as a termagant little hag of a woman.
- A covey is composed of three hags of any combination.
- As a character type, the crone shares characteristics with the hag.
- All three members of the covey can see whatever the hag eye is pointed at.
- A hag is a wizened old woman, or a fairy with the appearance of an old woman.
- The night hag also appears under the hag entry in this edition's Monster Manual.