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- noun Plural form of
hag .
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Examples
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Note 88: Belief in hags and bibes was real on the southern Avalon.
Gutenber-e Help Page 2005
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Probably the makers were anxious that their female protagonists not be thought of as fag hags, which isn't terribly aspirational.
Caroline Hagood: Mark Simpson and Caroline Hagood on Wo-Metrosexuality and the City 2010
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Probably the makers were anxious that their female protagonists not be thought of as fag hags, which isn't terribly aspirational.
Mark Simpson and Caroline Hagood on Wo-Metrosexuality and the City 2010
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To have the chance to run for office alongside men without being called hags or fools.
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To have the chance to run for office alongside men without being called hags or fools.
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I remember once, in some village in southern Greece, he stuck his five-year-old head out of his father's — my uncle's — car, and, encouraged by his guffawing dad, shouted insults at elderly women, calling them "hags".
'I Nearly Slapped My Little Cousin's Face': A Letter to The Observer 2008
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They were to the manner born, and minded no more the deep black ruts of the peat, which in the more easterly country are called "hags," than the open military road along which the carriage was bowling.
Patsy 1887
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Old "hags," who had just clapped their hands at the slaughtering, stop the guards
The French Revolution - Volume 2 Hippolyte Taine 1860
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In Yorkshire, according to Stukeley, they call snakes "hags" and "hag-worms," (Abury, p. 32.).
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He also spent the party pointing out which girls were 'hags' (anyone with unfortunate physical attributes) and 'aunties' (anyone less than stylishly dressed) and which girls were
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