Hag
[hæg] or [hæɡ]
解釋/意思:
(n.) A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; also, a wizard.
(n.) An ugly old woman.
(n.) A fury; a she-monster.
(n.) An eel-like marine marsipobranch (Myxine glutinosa), allied to the lamprey. It has a suctorial mouth, with labial appendages, and a single pair of gill openings. It is the type of the order Hyperotpeta. Called also hagfish, borer, slime eel, sucker, and sleepmarken.
(n.) The hagdon or shearwater.
(n.) An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a man's hair.
(v. t.) To harass; to weary with vexation.
(n.) A small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or inclosed for felling, or which has been felled.
(n.) A quagmire; mossy ground where peat or turf has been cut.
錄入:希莉娅
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Fury, beldam, she-monster, Jezebel, virago, vixen, ugly old woman.
布里茨校對
解釋/意思:
n. (Scot.) any broken ground in a moss or bog: brushwood to be cut down.
n. an ugly old woman originally a witch: one of the Round Mouths allied to the lamprey.—adj. Hag′gish hag-like.—adv. Hag′gishly.—adj. Hag′-rid′den ridden by witches as a horse: troubled by nightmare.—ns. Hag′-seed a witch's offspring; Hag′ship the personality of a hag; Hag′weed the common broom a broomstick being usually bestridden by a witch in her flight through the air.
整理:泰勒
娱乐性解釋/意思：
n. An elderly lady whom you do not happen to like; sometimes called also a hen or cat. Old witches sorceresses etc. were called hags from the belief that their heads were surrounded by a kind of baleful lumination or nimbus—hag being the popular name of that peculiar electrical light sometimes observed in the hair. At one time hag was not a word of reproach: Drayton speaks of a 'beautiful hag all smiles much as Shakespeare said, sweet wench. ' It would not now be proper to call your sweetheart a hag—that compliment is reserved for the use of her grandchildren.
博比編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- She stood there, by that beech-trunk--a hag like one of those who appeared to Macbeth on the heath of Forres. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- My whim is gratified; and now I think Mr. Eshton will do well to put the hag in the stocks to-morrow morning, as he threatened. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- It's of a woman; the hag that nursed his mother. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Come back you hag,--come back, Cass! 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- You hag, you cat, you dog, you brimstone barker! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Come this way, father, said the old hag, thou art a stranger in this castle, and canst not leave it without a guide. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- That hag Disappointment was greeting her with a grisly All-hail, and her soul rejected the intimacy. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Death on the cards, love in the stars, and the muttered prophecies of crouching hags, terrified at the omen of flying bat, of shrieking night-bird. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Looking cautiously round, to ascertain that they were not overheard, the two hags cowered nearer to the fire, and chuckled heartily. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- The pale lunar touches which make beauties of hags lent divinity to this face, already beautiful. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
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