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hag
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hæ?/
- Rhymes: -æ?
Etymology 1
From Middle English hagge, hegge (“demon, old woman”), shortening of Old English hægtesse, hægtes (“harpy, witch”), from Proto-Germanic *hagatusj? (compare Saterland Frisian Häkse (“witch”), Dutch heks, German Hexe (“witch”)), compounds of (1) *hagaz (“able, skilled”) (compare Old Norse hagr (“handy, skillful”), Middle High German behac (“pleasurable”)), from Proto-Indo-European *?ak- (compare Sanskrit ??????? (?aknóti, “he can”)), and (2) *tusj? (“witch”) (compare dialectal Norwegian tysja (“fairy, she-elf”)).
Noun
hag (plural hags)
- A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; a wizard.
- (derogatory) An ugly old woman.
- A fury; a she-monster.
- 1646, Richard Crashaw, Steps to the Temple, “Sospetto D' Herode”, stanza 37:
- Fourth of the cursed knot of hags is she / Or rather all the other three in one; / Hell's shop of slaughter she does oversee, / And still assist the execution
- 1646, Richard Crashaw, Steps to the Temple, “Sospetto D' Herode”, stanza 37:
- 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 man's hair.
- The fruit of the hagberry, Prunus padus.
- (slang) sleep paralysis
Synonyms
- (witch or sorceress): See Thesaurus:magician
- (ugly old woman): See Thesaurus:ugly woman
- (eel-like marine fish): borer, hagfish, sleepmarken, slime eel, sucker, myxinid
- (sea bird): hagdon, haglet, shearwater
- (fruit of the hagberry): bird cherry, hackberry
Derived terms
- fag hag
Translations
Etymology 2
From Scots hag (“to cut”), from Old Norse h?gg (“cut, gap, breach”), derivative of h?ggva (“to hack, hew”); compare English hew.
Noun
hag (plural hags)
- A small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or enclosed for felling, or which has been felled.
- A quagmire; mossy ground where peat or turf has been cut.
Etymology 3
From Proto-Germanic *hag(g)?nan (compare obsolete Dutch hagen (“to torment, agonize”), Norwegian haga (“to tire, weaken”)).
Verb
hag (third-person singular simple present hags, present participle hagging, simple past and past participle hagged)
- (transitive) To harass; to weary with vexation.
References
Further reading
- Hag in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Anagrams
- HGA, agh, gah, gha
Breton
Conjunction
hag
- and
Synonyms
- (before consonants or /j/) ha
Cornish
Conjunction
hag
- and
Synonyms
- (before consonants) ha
Danish
Verb
hag
- imperative of hage
Scots
Etymology 1
From Middle English haggen (“to hack, chop, cut”), from Old Norse h?ggva (“to hew”). Compare English hag, above. Noun attested from the 14th century in Older Scots, with the verb from c. 1400.
Alternative forms
- hagg
- haag, haug
Noun
hag (plural hags)
- a notch; a pit or break
- a stroke of an axe or similar instrument
- the felling of timber; the quantity of wood felled
- a quagmire from which peat or turf is cut
Verb
hag (third-person singular present hags, present participle haggin, past hagg'd, past participle haggit)
- to chop (wood); to hack; to dig out (coal etc.)
- (figuratively) to make a hash of (something)
- to cut down trees and prepare timber
Etymology 2
Unknown. Perhaps from Etymology 1 above, “to hack”, thus “castrate”. Compare hogg (“a young sheep”). Attested from the 19th century.
Noun
hag (plural hags)
- an ox
- a cattleman, one who raises cattle or oxen
- Synonym: hagman
Etymology 3
From Icelandic hagga (“to budge; to put out of place”). Attested from the 20th century.
Verb
hag (third-person singular present hags, present participle haggin, past hagg'd, past participle haggit)
- to hinder; to impede
References
- “hag, v1, n1.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–, OCLC 57069714, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, ?OCLC
- “hag, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–, OCLC 57069714, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, ?OCLC
- “hag, v.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–, OCLC 57069714, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, ?OCLC
- “haggen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- “hag, n2.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–, OCLC 57069714, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, ?OCLC
- “hag, v2.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–, OCLC 57069714, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, ?OCLC
Westrobothnian
Etymology
From Old Saxon hago (“enclosure”). Doublet of haga.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [h???], [hæ??]
- Rhymes: -á??, -???
- (a-o merger) Rhymes: -????, -????
Noun
hag n (definite hagjä)
- simple fence or enclosure made of sticks, twigs or bushes
- (hunting) such a construction used for hunting, with openings with snares and traps where birds and hares are caught
Derived terms
- ryphag
Related terms
- hååg
- haga
- hägi
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carlin
English
Alternative forms
- carline, carling
Etymology 1
From Old Norse karling, feminine of karl (“carl”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -??(r)l?n
Noun
carlin (plural carlins)
- An old woman.
- Synonyms: hag, crone
- 1836, Joanna Baillie, The Phantom, Act 1
- The bedrid carlins, too, and orphan brats,
Come all on me, through his petitioning;
- The bedrid carlins, too, and orphan brats,
Etymology 2
Noun
carlin (plural carlins)
- Alternative form of carling
Anagrams
- -carnil, crinal
French
Etymology
Probably from Carlin, nickname of Italian actor Carlo Bestinazzi (1713-1783) whose Harlequin mask was humorously compared to the dog's nose.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka?.l??/
Noun
carlin m (plural carlins)
- pug (dog)
Further reading
- “carlin” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- larcin
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