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Definitions: HAG |
HAGNoun1. A quagmire; mossy ground where peat or turf has been cut. 2. A small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or inclosed for felling, or which has been felled. 3. An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a man's hair. 4. The hagdon or shearwater. 5. An eel-like marine marsipobranch (Myxine glutinosa), allied to the lamprey. It has a suctorial mouth, with labial appendages, and a single pair of gill openings. It is the type of the order Hyperotpeta. Called also hagfish, borer, slime eel, sucker, and sleepmarken. 6. A fury; a she-monster. 7. An ugly old woman. 8. A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; also, a wizard. Transitive verb1. To harass; to weary with vexation. |
Date "HAG" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Hag A witch or sorceress. (Anglo-Saxon, hægtesse, a witch or hag.) "How now you secret, black, and midnight Hags?" Shakespeare: Macbeth, iv. I. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A. To cut as with an ax; to cut down the coal with the pick b. Scot. A cut; a notch c. N. of Eng. A quagmire or pit in mossy ground; any broken ground in abog. (references) |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
HAG | English | Hungary-Austria Gasline | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Evil doer | Hag, hellhag, beldam, Jezebel. |
Sorcerer | Noun: sorcerer, magician; thaumaturgist, theurgist; conjuror, necromancer, seer, wizard, witch; hoodoo, voodoo; fairy; lamia, hag. |
Ugliness | Eyesore, object, witch, hag, figure, sight, fright; monster; dog, woofer, pig; octopus, specter, scarecrow, harridan, satyr, toad, monkey, baboon, Caliban, Aesop, "monstrum horrendum informe ingens cui lumen ademptum". |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: HAG |
| English words defined with "HAG": Grab hag ♦ Hag moth, Hagborn, Hagdon, Hagged, Hagging, Haggish, Haggishly, Hag-ridden, Hagseed, Hagship, Hell-cat, Hellhag ♦ Night hag, Night witch ♦ Sleepmarken, slime eel. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "HAG": Abudah ♦ Death from Strange Causes ♦ Fag Hag ♦ hag principle ♦ Lady in the Sacque, Lucus a non Lucendo ♦ Nickneven ♦ peat hag. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "HAG": haggis. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "HAG" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Breton (and), Serbo-Croatian (hague). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | My wife is a bitter old hag, she's in Quahog and cant hear a word we're saying. (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás) One day I hope to have a hag of my very own. (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein) Biggest bitch under the sun. Just a senile old hag really. (House; writing credit: Fred Dekker; Ethan Wiley) The weed of crime bears bitter fruit you old hag! (Clerks; writing credit: Paul Dini; Brian Kelley) | |
Lyrics | I was raised by a toothless, bearded hag, ("JUMPING JACK FLASH"; performing artist: The Rolling Stones) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Hag in a Black Leather Jacket (1964) Fag Hag (1998) | |
Song Titles | Jigs: Bran O'Lynn/The Hag With The Money (performing artist: Steeleye Span) | |
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| "HAG" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 82.11% of the time. "HAG" is used about 95 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 82.11% | 78 | 37,656 |
| Noun (proper) | 15.79% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.05% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (common) | 1.05% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 95 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| Norway | Hag ASA |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "HAG": Grab hag ♦ Hag moth ♦ herring hag ♦ night hag ♦ old hag. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "HAG": hag-faced, hag-fish, hag-like, hag-ridden, hag-rides, Hag-taper. | |
Ending with "HAG": drag-hag, dyke-hag, night-hag, riding-hag. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
hag | 1,628 |
old hag | 68 |
fag hag | 43 |
the sea hag | 29 |
hag marina sea | 26 |
hag usa | 13 |
hag page | 12 |
hag chair | 10 |
hag popeye sea | 5 |
hag lake | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "HAG"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shtrigë (Beldam, beldame, cummer, gorgon, hex, lamia, medicaster, medicine man, necromancer, night-hag, termagant, witch), plakë e keqe, cofëtinë (carcase, carcass, carrion, scrag). (various references) | |
Arabic | ساحرة (hex, pixy), عفريتة (genista), عجوز شمطاء (beldame, crone), عرافة (augury, hex, necromancy, witchcraft, wizardry), جنية (fairy, fay, pixie, pixy), شيطانة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | старица (beldam, old woman), вещица (hellcat, hex, pythoness, witch), локва (plash, pool, puddle, slop), блато (backwater, bog, mere, mire, morass, muskeg, pan, pool, swamp, water hole), по-твърда почва в блато. (various references) | |
Czech | stará škatule, ježibaba (hellcat), babizna (crone, harridan), èarodìjnice (crone, witch). (various references) | |
Farsi | مه سفید, حصار (Barrier, Cramp, Enclosure, Fence, Fold, Fort, Hedge, Inclose, Wall), ساحره (Hellcat, Witch), عجوزه (Hellcat, Mare, Trot). (various references) | |
French | vieille sorcière (old harpy), vieille harpie (harridan, old harpy), vieille chouette, fée. (various references) | |
German | Hexe (bitch, old crone, sibyl, witch). (various references) | |
Greek | στρίγγλα (shrew, virago, vixen, witch), παληόγρια. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מכשפ" (harridan, sorceress, witch). (various references) | |
Hungarian | boszorkány (beldam, hell-cat, hex, sorceress, virago, vixen, witch). (various references) | |
Italian | strega (harridan, hex, sorceress, witch), donna vecchia. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 鬼婆 (penurious or spiteful old woman, witch), 婆あ (old woman), 婆 (old woman), 妖婆 (old witch). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おにばば (penurious or spiteful old woman, witch), ばばあ (old woman), ばば (old woman, riding ground), ようば (old witch). (various references) | |
Manx | lhagg (alveole, chamber, dinge, fold, fossa, trough, valley), caillagh ny gueshag. (various references) | |
Norwegian | hurpe, heks. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aghay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | punho (dukedom, fist, grasp, grip, hand grip, handgrip, handhold, handle, knob, wrist), mulher velha e feia (witch), feiticeira (Circe, enchase, sorceress, witch), fúria (fierceness, furor, furore, fury, madness, rabidity, rage, rave, rush, violence), bruxa (Beldam, harridan, hex, sorceress, witch), atordoar (amaze, appal, daze, deafen, din, dismay, dizzy, lay siege to, mope, puzzle, stagger, stun, stupefy), atoleiro (bog, mire, morass, puddle, quag, quagmire, Slough, swamp), amendrontar. (various references) | |
Romanian | hoanghinã (witch), hârcã (grimalkin, skull), zgripţuroaicã (crone, grimalkin, termagant, vixen), vrãjitoare (enchantress, hell-cat, lamia, magic, witch), teren mlãştinos, scorpie (devil's daughter, fury, Randy, scorpion, shrew, termagant, virago, vixen), porţiune de teren mai stabil, femeie bãtrânã şi urâtã, ciumã (fright, fury, lues, murrain, plague, scarecrow, shrew, termagant, vixen), bufniţã (fright, howlet, owl, scarecrow). (various references) | |
Russian | карга (harridan), ведьма (harridan, hellcat, hell-cat, hex, jade, night-hag, nightmare, witch). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | veštica (sorceress, witch). (various references) | |
Spanish | bruja (air plant, Beldam, bitch, crone, floppers, harridan, hex, lifeplant, night-hag, Randy, sorceress, witch, wizard). (various references) | |
Swedish | häxa (beldame, night-hag, sorceress, whitch, witch). (various references) | |
Thai | แม่ม", ตม, หญิงแก่ที่น่าเกลีย", แม่ม", หญิงแก่ที่น่าเกลีย". (various references) | |
Turkish | kocakarı (Beldam, beldame, crone, frump, gammer, harridan, old woman), cadaloz (battle axe, bitch, grimalkin, harridan, old cat, scold, shrew, shrewish, spiteful, termagant, virago, vixen), cadı (bitch, ghoul, gorgon, hellcat, old cat, shrewish, witch), bataklıkta sabit bir yer, acuze (Beldam, beldame, grimalkin, old woman, tabby). (various references) | |
Ukranian | фурія, відьма (bat, bear-cat, nightmare, witch), зарубка (dap, kerf, notch, notching, score, snick, wound). (various references) | |
Welsh | gwrach (witch). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | absaniae, anania, ananiae, ananiaeque, ananiam, ananias, aneni, anes, anus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "HAG": hagadic, hagadist, hagadists, hagberries, hagberry, hagborn, hagbush, hagbushes, hagbut, hagbuts, hagdon, hagdons, hagfish, hagfishes, haggada, haggadah, haggadahs, haggadas, haggadic, haggadist, haggadistic, haggadists, haggadot, haggadoth, haggard, haggardly, haggardness, haggardnesses, haggards, hagged, hagging, haggis, haggises, haggish, haggle, haggled, haggler, hagglers, haggles, haggling, hagiographer, hagiographers, hagiographic, hagiographical, hagiographies, hagiography, hagiologic, hagiological, hagiologies, hagiology, hagioscope, hagioscopes, hagioscopic, hagridden, hagride, hagrides, hagriding, hagrode, hags. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "HAG": shag. (additional references) | |
Words containing "HAG": anthropophagi, anthropophagies, anthropophagous, anthropophagus, anthropophagy, aphagia, aphagias, bacteriophage, bacteriophages, bacteriophagies, bacteriophagy, chagrin, chagrined, chagrining, chagrinned, chagrinning, chagrins, coliphage, coliphages, coprophagies, coprophagous, coprophagy, cowhage, cowhages, dysphagia, dysphagias, entomophagous, esophageal, esophagi, esophagus, esophaguses, gastroesophageal, geophagies, geophagy, hematophagous, hemorrhage, hemorrhaged, hemorrhages, hemorrhagic, hemorrhaging, hyperphagia, hyperphagias, hyperphagic, ichthyophagous, macrophage, macrophages, macrophagic, menorrhagia, menorrhagias, metrorrhagia, metrorrhagias, microphage, microphages, monophagies, monophagous, monophagy, mycetophagous, mycophagies, mycophagist, mycophagists, mycophagous, mycophagy, necrophagous, oesophagi, oesophagus, oligophagies, oligophagous, oligophagy, omophagies, omophagy, phage, phages, phagocyte, phagocytes, phagocytic, phagocytize, phagocytized, phagocytizes, phagocytizing, phagocytose, phagocytosed, phagocytoses, phagocytosing, phagocytosis, phagocytotic, phytophagous, polyphagia, polyphagias, polyphagies, polyphagous, polyphagy, posthemorrhagic, prophage, prophages, repechage, repechages, roughage, roughages, saprophagous, sarcophagi, sarcophagus, sarcophaguses, shagbark, shagbarks, shagged, shaggier, shaggiest, shaggily, shagginess, shagginesses, shagging, shaggy, shaggymane, shaggymanes, shagreen, shagreens, shags, sphagnous, sphagnum, sphagnums, xylophagous. (additional references) | |
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"HAG" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ahf, ahg, ahog, bhag, gheg, haag, hab, hac, hadg, haga, hage, hagg, hagi, hagt, hagy, hai, haig, haja, hajo, haju, haq, harg, hau, haug, hav, hayg, hcg, Hdab, heg, hege, Hegg, hegi, heig, helg, Hfa, hfg, hgb, hgg, hig, higd, Higg, hign, higo, higy, hirg, hmav, hnag, hoag, hogf, hogi, Hugg, qag, Uag, whag. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "HAG" (pronounced ha"g) |
| 2 | -a" g | ag, bag, brag, Dag, drag, fag, flag, gag, lag, mag, nag, rag, sag, shag, slag, snag, stag, tag, wag, Zag. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-h" | |
-1 letter: ag, ah, ha. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-h" | |
+1 letter: agha, gash, ghat, hags, hang, shag. | |
+2 letters: aargh, aghas, aught, bhang, chang, faugh, galah, garth, gerah, ghast, ghats, ghaut, ghazi, gnash, graph, hangs, haugh, hoagy, hogan, laigh, laugh, ogham, phage, sangh, saugh, shags, waugh, whang. | |
+3 letters: aahing, aarrgh, aching, afghan, aghast, aguish, alight, aright, ashing, aughts, aweigh, bhangs, bugsha, caught, change, changs, charge, curagh, galahs, galosh, ganjah, garish, garths, gashed, gasher, gashes, gather, gauche, gaucho, geisha, gerahs, gharri, gharry, ghauts, ghazis, gherao, graham, graphs, hading, haeing, hagbut, hagdon, hagged, haggis, haggle, haling, hangar, hanged, hanger, hangul, hangup, haring, hating, haughs, having, hawing, haying, hazing, hegari, hegira, hoagie, hogans, homage, kiaugh, laighs, laughs, naught, oghams, ohmage, phages, quahog, quaigh, rehang, sanghs, saughs, saughy, shaggy, shaugh, taught, unhang, waught, whangs. | |
+4 letters: aarrghh, abought, afghani, afghans, agoroth, agrapha, alights, alright, anguish, anhinga, aphagia, arching, ataghan, baching, bashing, bathing, bearhug, begorah, bighead, bugshas, burghal, caching, cashing, chafing, chagrin, changed, changer, changes, charged, charger, charges, charing, chasing, chawing, choragi, claught, cowhage, curaghs, curragh, dashing, digraph, dishrag, draught, egghead, fashing, fraught, gahnite, galoshe, galumph, ganache, ganjahs, garfish, garnish, gashest, gashing, gasohol, gathers, gaucher, gauchos, gawkish, geishas, gharial, gharris, ghastly, ghazies, gingham, gnashed, gnashes, gnathal, gnathic, goatish, godhead, goombah, goshawk, gouache, goulash, grahams, graphed, graphic, grayish, hacking, hafting, hagadic, hagborn, hagbush, hagbuts, hagdons, hagfish, haggada, haggard, hagging, haggish, haggled, haggler, haggles, hagride, hagrode, hailing, halogen, haloing, halting, halving, hamburg, hamming, handbag, handgun, handing, hangars, hangdog, hangers, hanging, hangman, hangmen, hangout, hangtag, hangups, hanking, hanting, happing, harking, harming, harping, hashing, hasping, hasting, hatting, haughty, haulage, hauling, hawking, hayings, haylage, hazings, heading, healing, heaping, hearing, heating, heaving, hegaris, hegiras, hemagog, herbage, hexagon, hidalgo, highway, hoagies, hoaxing, hogback, hogmane, hogwash, homaged, homager, homages, hostage, hypogea, jughead, kiaughs, largish, lashing, lathing, laughed, laugher, mahjong, mahuang, mashing, megahit, meshuga, naughts, naughty, nilghai, nilghau, nylghai, nylghau, oghamic, ohmages, pashing, paughty, phasing, quahaug, quahogs, quaighs, rehangs, sandhog, sashing, scraigh, shading, shagged, shaking, shaming, shaping, sharing, shaughs, shaving, shawing, shebang, stengah, thanage, thawing, thenage, unhangs, waggish, warthog, washing, washrag, waughts, whaling, whanged, whangee. | |
+5 letters: abashing, achingly, adhering, affright, afghanis, agalloch, agraphia, agraphic, aguishly, airthing, airtight, alighted, almighty, although, anaglyph, anhingas, anything, aphagias, apophyge, apothegm, archings, ataghans, atheling, baghouse, barghest, batching, beaching, bearhugs, begorrah, behaving, bigheads, brougham, bushgoat, catching, catfight, chaffing, chagrins, chaining, chairing, chalking, champing, chancing, changers, changing, chantage, chanting, chapping, chargers, charging, charking, charming, charring, charting, chasings, chatting, cheating, chigetai, choragic, choragus, chugalug, clashing, claughts, coaching, cowhages, crashing, curraghs, daughter, daylight, deashing, diagraph, digraphs, dishrags, dogwatch, draughts, draughty, earthing, echogram, eggheads, epigraph, esophagi, exchange, exhaling, faithing, fanlight, farthing, flagship, flashgun, flashing, fraughts, gahnites, galabieh, galoshed, galoshes, galumphs, gamashes, ganaches, garishly, gashouse, gaslight, gasohols, gastight, gathered, gatherer, gauchely, gauchest, gazpacho, geophagy, gharials, gharries, ghastful, gheraoed, gheraoes, gildhall, gilthead, ginghams, gnashing, gnathion, gnathite, goatfish, goatherd, godheads, golgotha, goombahs, goshawks, gouaches, grapheme, graphics, graphing, graphite, grayfish, guacharo, gymkhana, gynarchy, habiting, hackling, hagadist, hagberry, haggadah, haggadas, haggadic, haggadot, haggards, haggises, hagglers, haggling, hagrides, halloing, halogens, hamburgs, handbags, handgrip, handguns, handling, hangable, hangared, hangbird, hangdogs, hangfire, hangings, hangnail, hangnest, hangouts, hangover, hangtags, harangue, hardedge, harpings, harrying, hassling, hatching, haulages, haunting, havening, havering, hawkings, haylages, headgate, headgear, headings, headlong, healings, hearings, hearsing, hearting, helotage, hemagogs, hennaing, heptagon, herbages, heritage, hexagons, hexagram, hidalgos, highball, highjack, highland, highroad, hightail, highways, hiragana, hoarding, hogbacks, hogmanay, hogmanes, hogmenay, hogshead, hollaing, hologamy, hologram, homagers, homaging, homogamy, hooligan, hostages, huggable, huzzaing, hyalogen, hydragog, hypogeal, hypogean, ingather, inhaling, isograph, jagghery, jugheads, langshan, languish, lashings, latching, lathings, laughers, laughing, laughter, leaching, leashing, lethargy, litharge, loathing, logomach, longhair, longhand, longhead, mahjongg, mahjongs, mahogany, mahuangs, marching, matching, megahits, megalith, megillah, meshugah, meshugga, myograph, naething, narghile, nargileh, nightcap, nightjar, nilghais, nilghaus, nylghais, nylghaus, odograph, oghamist, oligarch, omophagy, orangish, outlaugh, overhang, paganish, parching, patching, pathogen, peaching, phalange, philabeg, phrasing, plashing, poaching, prophage, pshawing, quahaugs, quashing, ralphing, ranching, reaching, rechange, recharge, regather, rehanged, retaught, ringhals, roaching, roughage, saganash, sandhogs, scathing, scraighs, shadings, shafting, shagbark, shaggier, shaggily, shagging, shagreen, shamming, shanghai, shanking, shantung, sharking, sharping, shauling, shavings, shawling, sheafing, shealing, shearing, sheaving, shebangs, shigella, shoaling, shogunal, shortage, sightsaw, slashing, smashing, sphagnum, stashing, stengahs, straight, subgraph, swashing, swathing, taiglach, teaching, teiglach, thacking, thanages, thanking, thenages, thirlage, thrawing, tightwad, trashing, trigraph, uncaught, uncharge, unhanged, untaught, upgather, warthogs, washings, washrags, watchdog, watching, waughted, weighman, whacking, whalings, whamming, whangees, whanging, whapping, wharfage, wharfing, whizbang, wrathing, yachting, yataghan. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 41 47 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... .- --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01000001 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H A G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0041 0047 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)423541 |
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