hag

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; a female wizard.
    — And that olde hag that with a staffe his staggering lymbes dooth stay
  2. A small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or enclosed for felling, or which has been felled. Northern-England
    — This said, he led me over hoults and hags; / Through thorns and bushes scant my legs I drew
  3. An ugly old woman. derogatory
    — The elder women were literally "old hags" - lean and shrivelled, and excessively ugly.
  4. 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.
    — And they likewise ordained […] that all the warp should be thrown into the Common wayes, to fill up haggs and lakes, where need was, upon a great penalty, where it should ly neer the Common rode.
  5. An evil woman. derogatory
    — I don't plan to stop drinking. But... I don't wanna forget. I can't turn away anymore. So, if I'm gonna die, well, it might as well be driving my sword through the heart of that murderous hag.
  6. A woman. US,derogatory,slang,sometimes
  7. A fury; a she-monster.
    — 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
  8. 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.
  9. A hagdon or shearwater; one of various sea birds of the genus Puffinus.
  10. An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a person's hair. obsolete
    — Flamma lambentes (or those we call Haggs) are made of Sweat or some other Vapour issuing out of the Head; a not-unusuall sight amongst us when we ride by night in the Summer time: They are extinguisht, like flames, by shaking the Horse Mains
  11. The fruit of the hagberry, Prunus padus.
  12. Sleep paralysis. slang,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To cut or erode (as) a hag (a hollow into moorland).
    — hag […] is that part in mosses which is naturally or artificially cut, hollowed, hagged, or hacked; naturally by water runlets forming hollows, and artificially by, among other means, the cutting and removal of peat.
  2. To harass; to weary with vexation. transitive
    — How are Superstitious Men Hagg'd Out of their Wits and Senses, with the Fancy of Omens, Forebodings, Old Wives Tales, and Visions

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词源

词源 1
From Middle English hagge, hegge (“demon, old woman”), shortening of Old English hægtesse, hægtes (“harpy, witch”), from Proto-West Germanic *hagatussjā. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Häkse (“witch”), Dutch heks, German Hexe (“witch”). Doublet of hex.
词源 2
From Middle English hag (denoting a gap in a cliff), from Old Norse hǫgg (“cut, gap, breach”), derivative of hǫggva (“to hack, hew”). Compare English hew, Old Swedish hug (“blow, stroke”).
词源 3
From Middle English haggen, from Proto-Germanic *hag(g)ōnan (compare obsolete Dutch hagen (“to torment, agonize”), Norwegian haga (“to tire, weaken”)).
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