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boo-hag

boo-hag is the alternative form of boo hag.

Meaning of boo hag

Noun

boo hag (plural boo hags)

  1. (Gullah folklore) A malevolent supernatural being thought to sit on sleeping victims to drain their life force.
    • HAMILTON’S HILL, 0.4 m., a little elevation, was the starting point for the races, and is known for a wide variety of ghosts including such fearsome creatures as a 10-foot cat that explodes before the beholder’s eyes, plat-eyes in the guise of three-legged hogs and two-headed cows, boo-daddies...1938, The Ocean Highway: New Brunswick, New Jersey to Jacksonville, Florida, page 204
    Synonyms:
    night hag

Forms of boo-hag

pluralboo-hags

Questions about boo-hag

What is boo-hag the alternative form of?
Boo-hag is the alternative form of boo hag.

Words near boo-hag in the dictionary

  1. boo-booed
  2. boo-booing
  3. boo-boos
  4. boo-daddies
  5. boo-daddy
  6. boo-hag
  7. boo-hags
  8. boo-hoo
  9. boo-hooed
  10. boo-hooing
  11. boo-hooray

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Adapted from Wiktionary: boo-hag (page history and authors); boo hag (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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