Definition of "hag" in Englisch

noun

1. A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; a female wizard.

2. (derogatory) An ugly old woman.

3. (derogatory) An evil woman.

4. (US, slang, sometimes derogatory) A woman, particularly one over the age of 30 years.

   • – What is that hag trend that is going on?
   • – The trend, hagmaxxing, is when younger men pursue relationships with hags.

5. A fury; a she-monster.

6. 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.

7. A hagdon or shearwater; one of various sea birds of the genus Puffinus.

8. (obsolete) An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a person's hair.

9. The fruit of the hagberry, Prunus padus.

10. (uncountable, slang) Sleep paralysis.

noun

1. (Northern England) 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 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.

verb

1. To cut or erode (as) a hag (a hollow into moorland).

   • […] on one occasion, where the bog had been cut away, a stump was discovered which bore evident marks of having been hagged [hacked].

verb

1. (transitive) To harass; to weary with vexation.