hag

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To what you call the hag-ridden moron jittering out of sight in your mind, so many things equate to a threat to survival.

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  1. noun An old woman considered ugly or frightful.
  2. noun A witch; a sorceress.
  3. noun Obsolete A female demon.
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  • The sea-hag was a vigilant guardian except when she was sunk in one of her trances or stupefied by strong drink, as happened when changing weather made her bones ache. —  May, Julian - Boreal Moon 2 - Ironcrown Moon
  • How could she be called a hag if she was a hot little number as he expected she would be? —  The Countess
  • This woman is a hag, a liar, a racist, a bad parent, and a Jesus freak trying to convert gays. —  CNN Political Ticker
  • The hag, the IRS pick who didn't pay taxes, the socialist woman and her global warming crap ... this is absolutely sickening. —  Latest Articles
  • She thinks I am an old hag, and she takes offense over
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  1. Middle English hagge, perhaps short for Old English hægtesse, witch.
  2. Middle English, gap, chasm, of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse högg; see kau- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also hagg; from Middle English hagge, hegge, a shortened form (by dropping the supposed termination) of Anglo-Saxon hægtes, hægtis, also hægtesse (in early glosses spelled haehtis, haehtisse), plural hægtesse, a witch, a fury (glossing L. furia, striga, Erinys, Pythonissa, Tisiphone, plural hægtesse, glossing L. Furiæ, Eumenides, Parcæ), = Middle Dutch haghetisse, a witch (cf. Middle Dutch haeghdisse, heghdisse, Dutch haagdis, hagedis, a lizard, an accommodation to the word for ‘witch’ of Middle Dutch eggedisse = Anglo-Saxon āthexe, English ask, asker, q. v.), = Old High German hagazussa, hagzissa, hagzus, also hāzissa, hāzus (glossing L. furia, striga, Eumenis, Erynis), Middle High German hecse (also hacke), German hexe (later D. heks = Danish hex = Swedish hexa), a hag; a compound of uncertain formation.
  2. from hag, n.
  3. A dial. form of haw (from Anglo-Saxon haga), hay (Anglo-Saxon hege), or hedge (Anglo-Saxon *hecg?): see haw, hay, hedge. Cf. Dutch haag, a hedge; German hag, a haw, inclosure, fence, hedge, coppice, wood, etc. (see under haw). The sense of ‘a wood’ runs into that of hag, n., 2, a part of a wood to be felled.
  4. from hag, v. Cf. hack, n.
  5. Said to mean ‘bachelor, fellow, man’ in this passage, but prob. the same as hag. It cannot be connected with Anglo-Saxon hægsteald, a bachelor.
 

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