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A hag is an ugly or unpleasant woman in stories, especially an old one who looks like a witch. English uses it in fairy tales and as a nasty insult. It is not a calm, neutral word for an old woman. Kind people do not use it about someone they know. There is a different, rarer hag meaning a cut or gap in a cliff; that is not this sense.
老巫婆;醜老太婆(罵人,很失禮)
組成From Middle English hagge, a shortening of Old English hægtesse / hægtes (“witch, harpy”), from Proto-West Germanic *hagatussjā. Sister words include Dutch heks and German Hexe. It is a doublet of English hex — the same old witch-word, arrived twice. A different hag (a cut or gap in a cliff) comes from Old Norse hǫgg and is not this meaning.
同家族的字
- hexdoublet: the same old witch-word, come into English by another path
原始詞典資料14 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
hagnoun詞源 1/hæɡ/
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A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; a female wizard.
- And that olde hag that with a staffe his staggering lymbes dooth stay
- Such unaccountable masses of shades and shadows, that at first you almost thought some ambitious young artist, in the time of the New England hags, had endeavored to delineate chaos bewitched.
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derogatoryAn ugly old woman.
- The elder women were literally "old hags" - lean and shrivelled, and excessively ugly.
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derogatoryAn evil woman.
- I don't plan to stop drinking. But... I don't wanna forget. I can't turn away anymore. So, if I'm gonna die, well, it might as well be driving my sword through the heart of that murderous hag.
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derogatoryslangA woman.
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A fury; a she-monster.
- Fourth of the cursed knot of hags is she / Or rather all the other three in one; / Hell's shop of slaughter she does oversee, / And still assist the execution
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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.
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A hagdon or shearwater; one of various sea birds of the genus Puffinus.
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obsoleteAn appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a person's hair.
- Flamma lambentes (or those we call Haggs) are made of Sweat or some other Vapour issuing out of the Head; a not-unusuall sight amongst us when we ride by night in the Summer time: They are extinguisht, like flames, by shaking the Horse Mains
另外 2 個記錄的用法
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The fruit of the hagberry, Prunus padus.
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slangSleep paralysis.
hagnoun詞源 2/hæɡ/
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A small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or enclosed for felling, or which has been felled.
- This said, he led me over hoults and hags; / Through thorns and bushes scant my legs I drew
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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.
- And they likewise ordained […] that all the warp should be thrown into the Common wayes, to fill up haggs and lakes, where need was, upon a great penalty, where it should ly neer the Common rode.
- […] upon wet brae-sides, peat-haggs, and flow-mosses, […]
hagverb詞源 2/hæɡ/
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To cut or erode (as) a hag (a hollow into moorland).
- hag […] is that part in mosses which is naturally or artificially cut, hollowed, hagged, or hacked; naturally by water runlets forming hollows, and artificially by, among other means, the cutting and removal of peat.
- Covenanters too met often on our moss-hagged moors.
hagverb詞源 3/hæɡ/
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To harass; to weary with vexation.
- How are Superstitious Men Hagg'd Out of their Wits and Senses, with the Fancy of Omens, Forebodings, Old Wives Tales, and Visions
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。