different between hag vs crown

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)

1. A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; a wizard.
2. (derogatory) An ugly old woman.
3. 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

4. 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.
5. A hagdon or shearwater; one of various sea birds of the genus Puffinus.
6. (obsolete) An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a man's hair.
7. The fruit of the hagberry, Prunus padus.
8. (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)

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 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)

1. (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

1. and

Synonyms

• (before consonants or /j/) ha

Cornish

Conjunction

hag

1. and

Synonyms

• (before consonants) ha

Danish

Verb

hag

1. 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)

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

hag (third-person singular present hags, present participle haggin, past hagg'd, past participle haggit)

1. to chop (wood); to hack; to dig out (coal etc.)
2. (figuratively) to make a hash of (something)
3. 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)

1. an ox
2. 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)

1. 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)

1. simple fence or enclosure made of sticks, twigs or bushes
2. (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

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English coroune, croune, crowne, from Anglo-Norman coroune, curune, corone (French couronne), from Latin cor?na (“garland, crown, wreath”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (kor?n?). Doublet of corona. Displaced Middle English: beigh, bei?, b?, bi?, by fromOld English b?ag (“crown, garland, necklace”).

• (paper size): So called because originally watermarked with a crown.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /k?a?n/
• Rhymes: -a?n

Noun

crown (plural crowns)

1. A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.

   Synonyms: coronet, diadem

2. A wreath or band for the head, especially one given as reward of victory or a mark of honor.

   Synonyms: garland, wreath

3. (by extension) Any reward of victory or mark of honor.

   Synonyms: award, garland, honor, prize, wreath

4. Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it.

   Synonyms: monarchy, royalty

5. (metonymically) The sovereign (in a monarchy), as head of state.
6. (by extension, especially in law) The state, the government (headed by a monarch).
7. The top part of something:
   1. The topmost part of the head.

      Synonyms: apex, top
   2. The highest part of a hill.

      Synonyms: apex, peak, summit, top

      Antonyms: base, bottom, foot
   3. The top section of a hat, above the brim.
   4. The raised centre of a road.
   5. The highest part of an arch.
   6. The upper range of facets in a rose diamond.
   7. The dome of a furnace.
   8. The upper part of certain fruits, as the pineapple or strawberry, that is removed before eating.
8. (architecture) A kind of spire or lantern formed by converging flying buttresses.
9. Splendor; culmination; acme.

   Synonyms: completion, culmination, finish, splendor
10. Any currency (originally) issued by the crown (regal power) and often bearing a crown (headdress); (translation) various currencies known by similar names in their native languages, such as the koruna, kruna, krone, korona.
11. (historical) A former pre-decimalization British coin worth five shillings.

    Synonyms: caser, tusheroon, tush, tosheroon, tosh, bull, caroon, thick-un, coachwheel, cartwheel

    • 1859, J.C. Hotten, A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words:

      Half-a-crown is known as an alderman, half a bull, half a tusheroon, and a madza caroon; whilst a crown piece, or five shillings, may be called either a bull, or a caroon, or a cartwheel, or a coachwheel, or a thick-un, or a tusheroon.

12. (botany) The part of a plant where the root and stem meet.
13. (forestry) The top of a tree.
14. (anatomy) The part of a tooth above the gums.

    Synonym: corona

15. (dentistry) A prosthetic covering for a tooth.

    Synonyms: dental crown, dental cap

16. (nautical) A knot formed in the end of a rope by tucking in the strands to prevent them from unravelling
17. (nautical) The part of an anchor where the arms and the shank meet
18. (nautical) The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line.
19. (nautical, in the plural) The bights formed by the turns of a cable.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Totten to this entry?)

20. (paper) In England, a standard size of printing paper measuring 20 × 15 inches.
21. (paper) In American, a standard size of writing paper measuring 19 × 15 inches.
22. (chemistry) A monocyclic ligand having three or more binding sites, capable of holding a guest in a central location
23. (medicine) During childbirth, the appearance of the baby's head from the mother's vagina
    • 2007, David Schottke, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, First Responder: Your First Response in Emergency Care, page 385

      You will see the baby's head crowning during contractions, at which time you must prepare to assist the mother in the delivery of the baby.

24. (firearms) A rounding or smoothing of the barrel opening
25. (geometry) The area enclosed between two concentric perimeters.
26. (religion) A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.
27. A whole bird with the legs and wings removed to produce a joint of white meat.
28. (African-American Vernacular, colloquial) A formal hat worn by women to Sunday church services; a church crown.
29. The knurled knob or dial, on the outside of a watch case, used to wind it or adjust the hands.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???? (kuraun)
• ? Maori: karauna

Translations

Adjective

crown (not comparable)

1. Of, related to, or pertaining to a crown.

2. Of, related to, pertaining to the top of a tree or trees.

Translations

Verb

crown (third-person singular simple present crowns, present participle crowning, simple past and past participle crowned)

1. To place a crown on the head of.
2. To formally declare (someone) a king, queen, emperor, etc.
   • 1665, John Dryden, The Indian Emperour

     Her who fairest does appear,
     Crown her queen of all the year.

3. To bestow something upon as a mark of honour, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.

   • Thou […] hast crowned him with glory and honour.

4. To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.
   • 1856, John Lothrop Motley, The Rise of the Dutch Republic

     To crown the whole, came a proposition.

5. To declare (someone) a winner.
6. (medicine) Of a baby, during the birthing process; for the surface of the baby's head to appear in the vaginal opening.
   • 2010 Scott Gallagher Dancing Upon the Shore pg 157

     He's crowning . . . His head's coming through

7. (transitive) To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, such as the face of a machine pulley.
8. To hit on the head.
9. (video games) To shoot an opponent in the back of the head with a shotgun in a first-person shooter video game.
10. (board games) In checkers, to stack two checkers to indicate that the piece has become a king.

11. (firearms) To widen the opening of the barrel.
12. (military) To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.
13. (nautical) To lay the ends of the strands of (a knot) over and under each other.
14. (slang) being about to take a poop (usually trying to hold it in, derived from obstetric use: metaphor of "giving birth" to solid poo)

    Synonym: grow a tail

    • 2020, Eddy Keymolen, amerikanischen Umgangssprache page 148

      Where's the bathroom, I'm crowning here!

Derived terms

• crowned

Translations

See also

• coronation
• ????

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?o?n/
• Rhymes: -o?n

Verb

crown

1. (archaic) past participle of crow
   • 1823, Byron, Don Juan

     The cock had crown.

Middle English

Noun

crown

1. Alternative form of coroune