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HAGはぐ[/hæɡ/]名詞

解説

気に入らない年配の女性

時に「雌鳥」や「」とも呼ばれる。
魔女や妖術師もそう呼ばれたのは、髪に怪しげな光が見えると信じられていたから。

かつては侮蔑語ではなく、Draytonは「しいhag」と表現し、シェイクスピアも「sweet wench」と同様に使った。
だが今や恋人をhagと呼ぶのは不適切で、その称号は孫たち専用。

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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.

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