hagridden | Word of the Day

July 31, 2018 hagridden [hag-rid-n] adjective 1. worried or tormented, as by a witch. arts-entertainment Kids Sing the Darndest Things quizzes Celebrity Baby Name Or Past Word Of The Day? - Everything After Z by Dictionary.com WORD OF THE DAY hagridden continued... QUOTES We are a simple people, but we are hagridden by our fear of darkness. -- Jack Whyte, The Saxon Shore, 1995 ORIGIN The hag in hagridden has always meant "evil spirit (in female form), ghost, woman who deals with the Devil, a witch; an ugly, repellent, malicious old woman." The noun is very rare in Middle English (hegge appears once in the 13th century, and hagge once in the 14th) and becomes common only in the 16th century as heg, hegge. Hag is generally believed to descend from Old English hægtesse, hægtis "a fury, witch," akin to Old High German hagazissa, German Hexe (cf. hex signs on barns, especially in Amish country), from West Germanic hagatusjōn-. Hagridden entered English in the 17th century. OTHERS ARE READING 1 2 3 4 5 © 2018 Dictionary.com, LLC. ABOUT CONTACT You are subscribed to the Word of the Day as: matzom229@gmail.com Subscriber since: September 06, 2017 Unsubscribe Dictionary.com, LLC. 555 12th Street Suite 500 Oakland CA 94607 Manage your subscription Terms & Privacy