HAG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hag mean? 

• HAG (noun)
  The noun HAG has 2 senses:

1. an ugly evil-looking old woman

2. eellike cyclostome having a tongue with horny teeth in a round mouth surrounded by eight tentacles; feeds on dead or trapped fishes by boring into their bodies

  Familiarity information: HAG used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An ugly evil-looking old woman

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

beldam; beldame; crone; hag; witch

Hypernyms ("hag" is a kind of...):

old woman (a woman who is old)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Eellike cyclostome having a tongue with horny teeth in a round mouth surrounded by eight tentacles; feeds on dead or trapped fishes by boring into their bodies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

hag; hagfish; slime eels

Hypernyms ("hag" is a kind of...):

agnathan; jawless fish; jawless vertebrate (eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hag"):

Myxine glutinosa (typical hagfish)

eptatretus (a fossil hagfish of the genus Eptatretus)

Myxinikela siroka (fossil hagfish of the Pennsylvanian period (c. 300 million years ago) that resembled modern hagfishes)

Holonyms ("hag" is a member of...):

family Myxinidae; Myxinidae (slime-producing marine animals: hagfishes)

 Context examples 

She stood there, by that beech-trunk—a hag like one of those who appeared to Macbeth on the heath of Forres.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

As he listened to her, there rang in the ears of his memory the harsh cries of barbarian women and of hags, and, in lesser degrees of harshness, the strident voices of working women and of the girls of his own class.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

My whim is gratified; and now I think Mr. Eshton will do well to put the hag in the stocks to-morrow morning, as he threatened.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

All these were blotted out by a grotesque and terrible nightmare brood—frowsy, shuffling creatures from the pavements of Whitechapel, gin-bloated hags of the stews, and all the vast hell's following of harpies, vile-mouthed and filthy, that under the guise of monstrous female form prey upon sailors, the scrapings of the ports, the scum and slime of the human pit.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But I'll shut up Thornfield Hall: I'll nail up the front door and board the lower windows: I'll give Mrs. Poole two hundred a year to live here with my wife, as you term that fearful hag: Grace will do much for money, and she shall have her son, the keeper at Grimsby Retreat, to bear her company and be at hand to give her aid in the paroxysms, when my wife is prompted by her familiar to burn people in their beds at night, to stab them, to bite their flesh from their bones, and so on—

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)