hagborn

English

Alternative forms
  • hag-born, hag-borne

Etymology

hag +‎ born

Adjective

hagborn (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Born of a hag or witch.
    • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 4:
      Pro. […] Then was this Iſland / (Saue for the Son, that he[sic] did littour heere, / A frekelld whelpe, hag-borne) not honour'd with / A humane ſhape.
    • 1879, Augustus B. Wood, Cupid on Crutches, Or, One Summer at Narragansett Pier, page 113:
      Out, thou freckled whelp ! thou hagborn ! Out, I say !
    • 1946, Francis P. Scannell, In Line of Duty, page 39:
      The hagborn creature came up to the captain and raised his right hand, palm out, in a rough salute.
    • 1982, The Granta, page 96:
      Ned bites his thumb at her. 'Screw you and your mother and your hagborn dropsical brood, you scrofulous tit-sore slut!' he shouts, already beginning to feel better.

Further reading
  • “hagborn”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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