Subscriber login


Forgot your password?

Library card login

Other

hag1

Pronunciation: /hag/
Translate hag | into German | into Italian | into Spanish
Definition of hag

noun

  • 1a witch.
  • an ugly old woman:a fat old hag in a dirty apron

Derivatives

haggish

adjective

Origin:

Middle English: perhaps from Old English hægtesse, hegtes, related to Dutch heks and German Hexe 'witch', of unknown ultimate origin

hag in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of hag in the US English dictionary

Nearby words

  |  Cite

More words in this category

Word of the day

enjambement

/ ɪnˈdʒam(b)m(ə)nt /
noun
(in verse) the continuation of a sentence without a pause …