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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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vag
English
Etymology 1
Abbreviation of vagina.
Alternative forms
- vadge, vaj
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /væd?/
- Rhymes: -æd?
Noun
vag (plural not attested)
- (US slang, chiefly vulgar) vagina (or, informally, vulva)
Etymology 2
Abbreviation of vagrant.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /væ?/
- Rhymes: -æ?
Verb
vag (third-person singular simple present vags, present participle vagging, simple past and past participle vagged)
- (transitive, slang) To arrest somebody as a vagrant.
- 2002, T. R. St. George, Clyde Strikes Back (page 250)
- But I seen on the TV it was colder'n a witch's tit here so I stayed. Stuck it out. Then I caught a freight and got vagged.
- 2002, T. R. St. George, Clyde Strikes Back (page 250)
Etymology 3
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /væ?/
- Rhymes: -æ?
Noun
vag (plural vags)
- (Britain, dated, dialect, Devon) turf used as fuel
Verb
vag (third-person singular simple present vags, present participle vagging, simple past and past participle vagged)
- (Britain, archaic, dialect, Devon) To drag; to trail on the ground.
- (Britain, archaic, dialect, Devon) To bend; to give; to yield.
- (Britain, dated, dialect, Devon) To flap; to blow in the wind.
References
- Wright, Joseph (1905) The English Dialect Dictionary?[5], volume 6, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 335
Anagrams
- AGV, AVG, Gav, VGA, avg.
Danish
Etymology
From French vague
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /va??/, [væ??j], [væj?]
Adjective
vag
- vague
Inflection
Livonian
Alternative forms
- (Courland) va'g
Etymology
Related to Finnish vako.
Noun
vag
- furrow
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin vagus, via French vague
Adjective
vag (neuter singular vagt, definite singular and plural vage, comparative vagere, indefinite superlative vagest, definite superlative vageste)
- vague
References
- “vag” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Latin vagus, via French vague
Adjective
vag (neuter singular vagt, definite singular and plural vage, comparative vagare, indefinite superlative vagast, definite superlative vagaste)
- vague
References
- “vag” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French vague, Latin vagus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /va?/
Adjective
vag m or n (feminine singular vag?, plural vagi)
- vague
Declension
Swedish
Etymology
From French vague, from Latin vagus (unsteady, wandering).
Adjective
vag (comparative vagare, superlative vagast)
- vague
- själens subtilaste infall, dess vagaste föreställningar, dess flyktigaste drömmar
- the soul's most subtle inventions, its vaguest conceptions, its most volatile dreams
- själens subtilaste infall, dess vagaste föreställningar, dess flyktigaste drömmar
Declension
Synonyms
- diffus
- otydlig
Related terms
- vackla
- vagabond
- vagant
- vaghet
References
- vag in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- vag in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
Anagrams
- gav
Volapük
Noun
vag (nominative plural vags)
- emptiness
Declension
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