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hags

/hæɡz/

hags is the plural of hag.

hags is the third-person singular simple present indicative of hag.

Meaning of hag

Noun

hag (plural hags)

  1. A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; a female wizard.
    • And that olde hag that with a staffe his staggering lymbes dooth stay1565, Arthur Golding (tr.), The Fyrst Fower Bookes of P. Ouidius Nasos worke intitled Metamorphosis, London: William Seres, The Fovrthe Booke
    Synonyms:
    magician
  2. (derogatory) An ugly old woman.
    • The elder women were literally "old hags" - lean and shrivelled, and excessively ugly.1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 67
    Synonyms:
    ugly woman
  3. (derogatory) An evil woman.
    • I don't plan to stop drinking. But... I don't wanna forget. I can't turn away anymore. So, if I'm gonna die, well, it might as well be driving my sword through the heart of that murderous hag.2017, Eric Pearson, Craig Kyle, Christopher Yost, directed by Taika Waititi, Thor: Ragnarok, spoken by Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson)
  4. (US, derogatory, slang, sometimes) A woman.
  5. A fury; a she-monster.
    • Fourth of the cursed knot of hags is she / Or rather all the other three in one; / Hell's shop of slaughter she does oversee, / And still assist the execution1646, Richard Crashaw, “Sospetto D' Herode”, in Steps to the Temple, stanza 37
  6. A hagfish; one of various eel-like fish of the family Myxinidae, allied to the lamprey, with a suctorial mouth, labial appendages, and a single pair of gill openings.

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Phrase capitalized: HAGS

HAGS

  1. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of have a good (or great) summer.
    • Acronyms such as “HAGS” (have a great summer) have given a new spin to traditional good wishes for the future, and vernacular poetry has maintained its appeal.2016, Elizabeth Tucker, “Writing”, in Simon Bronner, Cindy Dell Clark, editors, Youth Cultures in America, page 753

Noun capitalized: HAGS

HAGS (uncountable)

  1. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling.
  2. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of hide and go seek.
    • HIDE AND GO SEEK :DD ¶ Would like to play some HAGS with people. Comment your Gamertag and where you would like to play2016 May 11, Mustachetronaut, “Destiny. Discuss all things Destiny”, in Bungie.net

Phrases with hags

Words that rhyme with hags

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Questions about hags

What is hags the plural of?
Hags is the plural of hag.
What part of speech is hags?
Hags can be a phrase or a noun.
How do you pronounce hags?
Hags is pronounced /hæɡz/.

Words near hags in the dictionary

  1. hagrides
  2. hagriding
  3. Hagrite
  4. Hagrites
  5. hagrode
  6. hags
  7. hagseed
  8. hagseeds
  9. Hagsfeld
  10. hagship
  11. hagsploitation

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