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wag | hag |

As a verb wag

is .

As a noun hag is

mind, mindset, temper, inclination.

wag

English

Verb

  • To swing from side to side, especially of an animal's tail
  • * Shakespeare
    • No discerner durst wag his tongue in censure.
  • * Bible, Jer. xviii. 16
    • Every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.
  • (UK, Australia, slang) To play truant from school.
  • * 1848 , Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, xxii
    • "My misfortunes all began in wagging,'' Sir; but what could I do, exceptin' ''wag''?" "Excepting what?" said Mr. Carker. "''Wag,'' Sir. ''Wagging'' from school." "Do you mean pretending to go there, and not going?" said Mr. Carker. "Yes, Sir, that's ''wagging, Sir."
  • * 1901 , William Sylvester Walker, In the Blood, i. 13
    • They had "wagged it" from school, as they termed it, which..meant truancy in all its forms.
  • (obsolete) To be in action or motion; to move; to get along; to progress; to stir.
  • * Shakespeare
    • "Thus we may see," quoth he, "how the world wags ."
  • (obsolete) To go; to depart.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I will provoke him to 't, or let him wag .

    Derived terms

    * (to not go to school) play the wag; hop the wag; wag it * to finger-wag

    See also

    * waggle (frequentative) * wiggle

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An oscillating movement.
    • The wag of my dog's tail expresses happiness.
  • A witty person.

    • See also

    * skivitis

    References

    * The Oxford English Dictionary, (1989) Accessed 23 Feb. 2006. * Jonathon Green, "wag," The Cassell Dictionary of Slang, (1998) p. 1257.

    Anagrams

    * ----

    hag

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) hagge, hegge 'demon, old woman', shortening of (etyl) '', ).1987, E. C. Polomé, R. Bergmann (editor), "Althochdeutsch ''hag(a)zussa'' 'Hexe': Versuch einer neuen Etymologie", ''Althochdeutsch 2 (Wörter und Namen. Forschungsgeschichte) , pages 1107-1112.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; a wizard.
  • * (rfdate) Golding
    • [Silenus] that old hag .
  • (pejorative) An ugly old woman.
  • A fury; a she-monster.
    • (Crashaw)
  • A hagfish; an eel-like marine marsipobranch, , allied to the lamprey, with a suctorial mouth, labial appendages, and a single pair of gill openings.
  • A hagdon or shearwater.
  • An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a man's hair.
    • (Blount)
  • The fruit of the hagberry, Prunus padus .
    • Synonyms
    * (witch or sorceress) * (ugly old woman) See also * (fury or she-monster) * (eel-like marine marsipobranch) borer, hagfish, sleepmarken, slime eel, sucker * (hagdon or shearwater) * (appearance of light and fire on mane or hair) * (fruit of the hagberry)
    Derived terms
    * fag hag

    Verb

    (hagg)
  • To harass; to weary with vexation.
  • * L'Estrange
    • How are superstitious men hagged out of their wits with the fancy of omens.

    Etymology 2

    Scots ; compare English hack.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or enclosed for felling, or which has been felled.
  • * Fairfax
    • This said, he led me over hoults and hags ; / Through thorns and bushes scant my legs I drew.
  • A quagmire; mossy ground where peat or turf has been cut.
    • (Dugdale)

    References

    (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

    * ----