early 13c., "repulsive old woman" (rare before 16c.), probably from Old English hægtes, hægtesse "witch, sorceress, enchantress, fury," shortened on the assumption that -tes was a suffix. The Old English word is from Proto-Germanic *hagatusjon, which is of unknown origin. Dutch heks, German Hexe "witch" are similarly shortened from cognate Middle Dutch haghetisse, Old High German hagzusa.
The first element probably is cognate with Old English haga "enclosure, portion of woodland marked off for cutting" (see hedge (n.)). Old Norse had tunriða and Old High German zunritha, both literally "hedge-rider," used of witches and ghosts. The second element in the prehistoric compound may be connected with Norwegian tysja "fairy; crippled woman," Gaulish dusius "demon," Lithuanian dvasia "spirit," from PIE *dhewes- "to fly about, smoke, be scattered, vanish."
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 hægtesse seem at one time to have meant "woman of prophetic and oracular powers" (Ælfric uses it to render the Greek "pythoness," the voice 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 an important tree in northern European pagan religion. There may be several layers of folk etymology here. Confusion or blending with heathenish is suggested by Middle English hæhtis, hægtis "hag, witch, fury, etc.," and haetnesse "goddess," used of Minerva and Diana.
If the hægtesse once was a powerful supernatural woman (in Norse it is an alternative word for Norn, any of the three weird sisters, the equivalent of the Fates), it might originally have 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 straddles the hedge," because the hedge was the boundary between the civilized world of the village and the wild world beyond. The hægtesse 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 Middle English sense of hedge- (hedge-priest, etc.), suggesting an itinerant sleeping under bushes. The same word could have contained all three senses before being reduced to its modern one.
hag 英文释义
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
hag 双语例句
1. I hope the old hag has gone out to do her grocery shopping and hasn't come back yet.
我希望那个老妖婆出门买杂货还没回来。
来自柯林斯例句
2. " Come off it, old hag!
“ 不!不! 不!
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3. An ugly old hag appeared.
一位相貌丑陋的老女巫走来.
来自辞典例句
4. Syed Mohammed and Hag looked cross.
悉德?穆罕默德先生和赫格先生看样子生气了.
来自辞典例句
5. This intimation seemed to compose in some degree the vehement passion of the old hag.
这番交代似乎使老妖婆的无名怒火稍微平息了一点.
来自辞典例句
hag 实用场景例句
I hope the old hag has gone out to do her grocery shopping and hasn't come back yet.
我希望那个老妖婆出门买杂货还没回来。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
You want to teach when you're an old hag?
当你是个丑老太婆的时候还要去教书?
电影对白
This intimation seemed to compose in some degree the vehement passion of the old hag.
这番交代似乎使老妖婆的无名怒火稍微平息了一点.
辞典例句
Old hag with the yellow teeth.
满嘴黄板牙的丑婆子.
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Wild wood should be well protect from excessive hag.
野生森林应该被保护以免过量砍伐.
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I knew this woman Murdockson was an infernal hag, but I thought she loved me.
我深知默多克森这婆娘是个坏透了的女人, 可是我想她喜欢过我.
辞典例句
You are the third moon aspect as the Hag, Dark Moon, or the Crone.
您以冥月, 或沧桑的老妇展现月的第三种形态.
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An ugly old hag appeared.
一位相貌丑陋的老女巫走来.
辞典例句
Did you see anyone who got off with a black hag?
你看没看见一个背黑包的人下了车?
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The oldest people . A bent hag crossed from Cassidy's clutching a noggin bottle by the neck.
一个弯腰驼背的老妪从卡西迪那家酒店里走了出来,横过马路,手里攥着一只能装四分之一品脱的瓶子嘴儿.
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Syed Mohammed and Hag looked cross.
悉德?穆罕默德先生和赫格先生看样子生气了.
辞典例句
The man , who has been follow hag her, pretends to happen to meet her.
那人一直跟在她后边, 上前装作不期而遇.
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She gradually turns into an hag.
她逐渐变成一个丑老太婆.
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How could you let that old hag and her girl enter the Blue House?
你怎么让那老瘟婆跟她女儿进蓝宫的?
电影对白
We give away 5,000 plastics hag at the exhibition.
在展览会上,我们赠送了五千只塑料袋.
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You must be insane, you ugly old hag!
你一定是疯了, 你这又老又丑的老巫婆.
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For the old hag with the yellow teeth.
有着黄板牙的丑婆子.
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The language in which the hag addressed them was a strange and barbarous Latin.
那个母夜叉对他们说话时所用的语言是一种古怪而不规范的拉丁语.
辞典例句
Look at that old hag showing off before the mirror.
你看,象个老妖精似的,在镜子前摇头晃脑的,呸!
电影对白
Mother cut the cake in hag and gave us some each.
妈妈把蛋糕切成两半分给我们一人一半.
期刊摘选
I hope the old hag has gone out to do her grocery shopping and hasn't come back yet.
