hag

FREQ #10925

n. 女巫, 丑老太婆, 魔女, 沼地, 砍伐 vt. 砍, 劈

发音

AU /ˈhæɡ/
US /ˈheɪ̯ɡ/
CA /ˈheɪ̯ɡ/

词形变化

hags 复数 hags 三单 hagging 现在分词 hagged 过去式 hagged 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

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

  2. 2.

    An ugly old woman.

    黄脸婆

    老太婆

    贬义
  3. 3.

    An evil woman.

    贬义
  4. 4.

    A woman.

    美国 贬义 俚语
  5. 5.

    A fury; a she-monster.

  6. 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. 7.

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

  8. 8.

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

    废旧
  9. 9.

    The fruit of the hagberry, Prunus padus.

  10. 10.

    Sleep paralysis.

    俚语 不可数
  11. 1.

    A small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or enclosed for felling, or which has been felled.

  12. 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.

v.
  1. 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].

  2. 1.

    To harass; to weary with vexation.

    及物

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词源

From Middle English hagge, hegge (“demon, old woman”), shortening of Old English hægtesse, hægtes (“harpy, witch”), from Proto-West Germanic *hagatussjā. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Häkse (“witch”), Dutch heks, German Hexe (“witch”). Doublet of hex.

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