• IPA: /hæɡ/

hag (plural hags)

1. A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; a wizard.
   • 1851 November 13, Herman Melville, chapter 3, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, OCLC 57395299 ↗:

     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.

2. (pejorative) An ugly old woman.
3. A fury; a she-monster.
   • 1646, Richard Crashaw, Steps to the Temple, “Sospetto D' Herode”, stanza 37:

     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

4. 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.
5. A hagdon or shearwater; one of various sea birds of the genus Puffinus.
6. (obsolete) An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a man's hair.
7. The fruit of the hagberry, Prunus padus.
8. (slang) sleep paralysis

• (witch or sorceress) See Thesaurus:magician
• (ugly old woman) See Thesaurus:ugly woman
• (eel-like marine fish) borer, hagfish, sleepmarken, slime eel, sucker, myxinid
• (sea bird) hagdon, haglet, shearwater
• (fruit of the hagberry) bird cherry, hackberry

• French: sorcière
• German: Hexe
• Italian: strega, fattucchiera, megera
• Portuguese: bruxa
• Russian: ве́дьма
• Spanish: bruja

• French: sorcière, harpie, virago, haridelle, mégère
• German: Hexe, Vettel
• Italian: megera, befana (expecially used in jokes and pranks), befana (slang, often used in jokes and pranks)
• Portuguese: bruxa
• Russian: карга́
• Spanish: bruja

• Portuguese: cuca
• Russian: фу́рия

hag (plural hags)

1. A small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or enclosed for felling, or which has been felled.
2. A quagmire; mossy ground where peat or turf has been cut.

hag (hags, present participle hagging; past and past participle hagged)

1. (transitive) To harass; to weary with vexation.