Noun (1)
although she looks like a hag, she's really the sweetest old lady you could ever hope to meet
falsely accused of being a hag who had caused the plague
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Is there a more ostentatious fat hag in America than Meghan McCain?—Daniel S. Levine, PEOPLE, 5 Dec. 2025 People online can call you an old hag or too young, but one thing is for sure.—Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 3 Dec. 2025 Our conjure drives the cinematic imagination of Americans like the hags who ride our backs during our darkest nightmares.—Essence, 29 Oct. 2025 Rather than hang out with the two old hags, Cherry decides to try her luck on the stand-up paddleboards with Brigitte and Daniel, but quickly loses her balance.—Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025 But when the island’s prince is kidnapped, an unlikely alliance of an ogre, hag, wizard and fey will have only days to sneak around London to save him.—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 30 Aug. 2025 On the flipside is the hag: unattractive, withered and unpleasant.—Chi Varnado, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Aug. 2025 But any kinship with the master storyteller dissolves when the movie makes an abrupt swerve midway into witchy hag horror but fails to bolster that turn with compelling mythology.—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2025 That lady is really the aforementioned murderous hag (Meredith Binder), her false veneer of youthful beauty reinforced by a magic mirror’s flattering (if also caustic) topless female spirits, and sustained via grisly methods seemingly inspired by Elizabeth Bathory.—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 2 May 2025
Word History
Etymology
Noun (1)
Middle English hagge demon, old woman
Noun (2)
Scots, break in a moor, from Old Norse hǫgg cut, cleft; akin to Old English hēawan to hew
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