Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A malicious, evil-minded old woman.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A hag of or fit for hell.

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  • noun A hag from, or fit for, Hell.

Etymologies

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Hell +‎ hag

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Examples

  • The Cleveland matron is the middle figure of a three-headed hellhag who, under the Freudian template of Mark Twain interpretation, leeched the writer’s precious raw Western genius, turning him into a literary girlie-man.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • The Cleveland matron is the middle figure of a three-headed hellhag who, under the Freudian template of Mark Twain interpretation, leeched the writer’s precious raw Western genius, turning him into a literary girlie-man.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

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