Hag

Noun

 * 1) A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; also, a wizard.
 * 2)  An ugly old woman.
 * 3) A fury; a she-monster.
 * 4) An eel-like marine marsipobranch (Myxine glutinosa), allied to the lamprey. It has a suctorial mouth, with labial appendages, and a single pair of gill openings. It is the type of the order Hyperotreti. Called also hagfish, borer, slime eel, sucker, and sleepmarken.
 * 5) The hagdon or shearwater.
 * 6) An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a man's hair.
 * 7) The fruit of the hagberry.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:ugly person

Related terms

 * fag hag

Adjectives for Hag
unseemly; edentate; withered; blear-eyed; hideous; ferocious; wicked; secret; black; midnight.

Thesaurus
Jezebel, Weird Sisters, baboon, bag, bat, battle-ax, beldam, biddy, bitch-kitty, blemish, blot, coven, crone, dame, dog, dowager, drab, enchantress, eyesore, fishwife, fright, frump, fury, gammer, gargoyle, gorgon, grandam, grandmother, granny, grimalkin, harpy, harridan, hellcat, hellhag, hex, lamia, mess, monster, monstrosity, no beauty, old battle-ax, old dame, old girl, old granny, old lady, old trot, old wife, old woman, scarecrow, shamaness, she-devil, she-wolf, shrew, sight, siren, slattern, sorceress, teratism, termagant, tigress, trot, ugly duckling, virago, vixen, war-horse, wildcat, witch, witchwife, witchwoman

Etymology
hagge:, hegge: 'demon, old woman', shortening of hægtesse, hægtes: 'harpy, witch', from  (cf. East Frisian häkse:, Dutch heks:, German Hexe:), compound of (1)  'able, skilled' (cf. Old Norse hagr: 'handy, skillful', Middle High German bebehac: 'pleasurable'), from - (cf. Sanskrit undefined: 'he can'), and (2)   'witch' (cf. Norwegian dialect tysja: 'fairy, she-elf').

Translations

 * Finnish:
 * Manx: caillagh ny gueshag, gueshag


 * Polish: wiedźma
 * Swedish:, häxor


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Norwegian:


 * Russian:
 * Swedish:


 * Portuguese: cuca


 * Swedish:

Anagrams

 * agh, gah

Conjunction

 * 1) and

Synonyms

 * ha - before a consonant (and /j/ )

Conjunction

 * 1) and (before a vowel)
 * Yma hwans dhymm a diwes hag avel.
 * I want a drink and an apple.

Synonyms

 * ha - before a consonant.

Proper noun

 * 1) The Hague

Derived terms

 * hȃškī