Англо-русский Русско-английский биологический словарь - hag
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hag
см. hagfish
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1. ведьма, колдунья 2. уст. злой дух в образе женщины 3. злая уродливая старуха; карга old hag —- бран. старая ведьма 4. зоол. миксина (Myxine) 5. шотл. болото, болотистый участок 6. шотл. участок более твердой почвы в болотистой местности ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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noun ведьма, карга HAGGARD I adj. изможденный, измученный; осунувшийся Syn: see blear II adj. неприрученный, дикий (о соколе) ...Англо-русский словарь
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1. n. 1 an ugly old woman. 2 a witch. 3 = HAGFISH. Derivatives haggish adj. Etymology: ME hegge, hagge, perh. f. OE h{aelig}gtesse, OHG hagazissa, of unkn. orig. 2. n. Sc. & N.Engl. 1 a soft place on a moor. 2 a firm place in a bog. Etymology: ON h{ouml}gg gap, orig. 'cutting blow', rel. to HEW ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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abbreviation ~gai HAG I. noun Etymology: Middle English ~ge demon, old woman Date: 14th century 1. an ugly, slatternly, or evil-looking old woman 2. archaic a. a female demon b. an evil or frightening spirit ; hobgoblin 3. witch • ~gish adjective II. noun Etymology: Scots, break in a moor, from Old Norse hogg cut, cleft; akin to Old English heawan to hew Date: 1662 1. British quagmire, bog 2. British a firm spot in a bog ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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(hags) If someone refers to a woman as a hag, they mean that she is ugly, old, and unpleasant. (OFFENSIVE) N-COUNT c darkgreen]disapproval ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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-ridden - see hag. An old term for sleep paralysis, the sensation of being held immobile in bed, often by a heavy weight, and accompanied by a sense of alien presence. A holed stone hung over the bed was said to prevent it. HAG - shortening of O.E. hжgtesse "witch, fury" (on assumption that -tesse was a suffix), but apparently originally "hedge-rider," from haga "enclosure" (see hedge). O.N. had tunriрa and O.H.G. zunritha, both lit. "hedge-rider," used of witches and ghosts. One of the magic words for which there is no male form, suggesting its original meaning was close to "diviner, soothsayer," which were always female in northern European paganism, and hжgtesse seem at one time to have meant "woman of prophetic and oracular powers" (Жlfric uses it to render the Gk. "pythoness," the source of the Delphic oracle), a figure greatly feared and respected. Later, the word was used of village wise women. Haga is also the haw- in hawthorn, which is a central plant in northern European pagan religion. There may be several layers of folk-etymology here. If the hжgtesse was once a powerful supernatural woman (in Norse it is an alternate word for Norns, the three weird sisters, the equivalent of the Fates), it may have originally carried the hawthorn sense. Later, when the pagan magic was reduced to local scatterings, it might have had the sense of "hedge-rider," or "she who sits on the hedge," because the hedge was the boundary between the "civilized" world of the village and the wild world beyond. The hжgtesse would have a foot in each reality. Even later, when it meant the local healer and root collector, living in the open and moving from village to village, it may have had the mildly pejorative sense of hedge- in M.E. (hedge-priest, etc.), suggesting an itinerant sleeping under bushes, perhaps. The same word could have contained all three senses before being reduced to its modern one. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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