• HA’D
n. c1870 sl. – a halfpenny (pronounced ‘hay-dee’)
• HAD
adj. 1. L17 sl. – seduced
adj. 2. L18 sl. – tricked, hoaxed, deceived
• HAD A SKINFUL
adj. Bk1999 Aust. sl. – drunk
• HADDABAT
n. Bk1905 Eng. dial. – the common bat
• HADDER
n. 1. Bk1905 Eng. dial. – a fine rain or drizzle
n. 2. Bk1905 Eng. dial. – a heavy mist or bank of fog
n. 3. Bk1905 Eng. dial. – a state of perspiration; sweat
vb. Bk1905 Eng. dial. – to drizzle, rain finely
• HADDERY
adj. Bk1905 Eng. dial. – drizzling
• HADDIE
n. 1. 1683 Sc. – the haddock
n. 2. 1920 Sc. – a nickname for an Aberdonian
n. 3. 1955 Sc. – a term of mild, jocular abuse; a blockhead
• HADDIT
adj. 1960s NZ sl. – useless, second-rate
• HADDOCK
n. 1. 1831 UK rhyming sl. (haddock and cod) – a term of contempt or abuse; a sod, an annoying or unpleasant person
n. 2. E19 sl. – a purse
n. 3. M19 US sl. – money
• HADDOCK AND BLOATER
n. 1950s rhyming sl. – a motor-car
• HADDOCK AND COD
n. 1. 1962 UK rhyming sl. – a term of abuse; a sod, an annoying, irritating, or unpleasant person
n. 2. 20C rhyming sl. for ‘sod’ – an affectionate name for a child
• HADDOCK STUFF’D WITH BEANS
n. E19 sl. – a purse full of guineas
• HADDUMS
n. M17 sl. – venereal disease
• HA-DEE
n. c1870 sl. – a halfpenny (pronounced ‘hay-dee’)
• HAD ‘EM
n. M17 sl. – venereal disease
• HADES
n. 1. L16 – hell
n. 2. Bk1905 Eng. dial. – a place between or behind hills and out of sight
• HADICK
n. Bk1905 Sc. – a hat
• HA-DI-FUCKING-HA!
int. 1976 UK sl. – used as a jeering response to unfunny jokes, and to dismiss impossible suggestions
• HAD IT
adj. 1. 1960s NZ sl. – useless, second-rate
adj. 2. 1981 US sl. – exhausted, completely worn out
n. 1992 UK sl. – (‘had-it’) a person who was formerly successful
• HAD-I-WIST
n. 1390 obs. – a phrase (if I had known), expressing regret for something done in ignorance of circumstances now known; hence, a vain regret, or the heedlessness or loss of opportunity which leads to it
• HADLAND
n. 1592 obs. – a humorous title for one who formerly owned land and has lost it
• HAD MORE PRICKS THAN A SECOND-HAND DARTBOARD
phr. 1982 UK sl. – used of a sexually promiscuous woman
• HAD NO HOME TRAINING
adj. 1965 Amer. dial. – lacking manners, uncouth, boorish
• HAD ON TOAST
adj. 1886 sl. – done, swindled
• HAD YOUR PENNORTH OR DO YOU WANT A HA’PENNY CHANGE?
phr. 1920s sl. – addressed to a person one feels is once staring rudely
• HAEMATIC
adj. 1854 – pert. to blood; containing blood; of a blood-red colour
• HAEMATINE
adj. 1658 obs. – resembling blood; blood-red
• HAEMATOID
adj. 1920s euphemism – ‘bloody’, abominable or terrible
• HAEMOPHOBIA
n. 1886 – fear or horror at the sight of blood
• HAEMOPHOBOUS
adj. 1684 rare – afraid of blood, averse to bloodletting
• HAEMORRHOID
n. 1. 1969 US sl. – a despised person
n. 2. 1975 US sl. – an irritation; an annoying person
n. 3. 1980s Aust. prison sl. – a prison officer
• HAEMORRHOID HITMAN
n. 1990s sl. – a homosexual man
• HAFFAND
n. 1914 Sc. – a concubine, a paramour
• HAFFEN
adj. 1884 Amer. dial. – half
n. 1884 Amer. dial. – a half
• HAFFER
vb. Bk1905 Eng. dial. – to speak stammeringly or hesitatingly
• HAFFET
n. 1. 1513 Sc. & N. Eng. dial. – the side of the head above and in front of the head; the temple; the cheek
n. 2. 1808 Sc. – a blow on the side of the head; a box on the ear
• HAFFET-CLAWING
n. 1895 Eng. dial. – face-scratching
• HAFFET-LOCKS
n. 1725 Sc. – locks of hair growing on the temples
• HAFFETS
n. 1. 1725 Sc. – locks of hair growing on the temples
n. 2. 1869 Eng. dial. – the jaws; the undersides of the jaw
• HAFFICK
n. Bk1905 Eng. dial. – tangle, confusion, rubbish, litter
• HAFFIE
n. 1970s S. Afr. sl. – a half bottle of spirits or wine
• HAFFLE
n. 1. 1863 Eng. dial. – hesitation
n. 2. Bk1905 Eng. dial. – a rag tied round an injured finger
vb. 1790 Eng. dial. – to hesitate; to speak confusedly; to falter; to stammer; to prevaricate, to quibble
• HAFFLE AND CAFFLE
vb. 1896 Eng. dial. – to shilly-shally
• HAFFLE-CAFFLE
vb. Bk1905 Eng. dial. – to falter, to vacillate, to act with indecision
• HAFFLE-MAFFLE
vb. 1885 Eng. dial. – to speak unintelligibly, to stammer
• HAFFLIN
adj. 1866 Eng. dial. – half-grown, youthful
n. 1867 Sc. – a half-grown boy; a stripling; a boy employed upon a farm or in a stable; a hobbledehoy
• HAFFLING
adj. Bk1905 Eng. dial. – hesitating, indecisive; prevaricating
n. 1881 Eng. dial. – confused talk
• HAFFLING AND JAFFLING
n. Bk1905 Eng. dial. – chattering, gossiping
• HAFFLING AND SHAFFLING
adj. Bk1905 Eng. dial. – confused, prevaricating
• HAFFLINS
adj. 1. 1796 Sc. – half, partial
adj. 2. 1824 Sc. – half-grown, young
adv. 1. 1789 Sc. – half-way; mid-way; in equals shares
adv. 2. 1808 Sc. – half, partially; nearly
• HAFFLINS-WISE
adv. 1785 Sc. – partly, in a slight measure; reluctantly, half-heartedly
• HAFFLY
adj. Bk1905 Eng. dial. – hesitating, indecisive; prevaricating
• HA’-FOLK
n. 1786 Sc. – the folk of the hall, kitchen, or common room, the servants (ha’ = hall)
• HAFT
n. 1. 1686 Eng. dial. – an island in a pool
n. 2. 1785 Sc. & N. Eng. dial. – a fixed or established place of abode
n. 3. 1859 Sc. & Eng. dial. – a handle, esp. of a knife or small tool
vb. 1. 1519 obs. – to use subtlety or deceit; to use shifts or dodges; to haggle, to cavil; to avoid coming to the point, to hold off, to hang back, to hesitate
vb. 2. 1728 Sc. & N. Eng. dial. – to establish in a situation or place of residence; to locate
• HAFTER
n. 1519 obs. – a caviller, a wrangler, a haggler, a dodger
• HAFTIES
n. 1925 Sc. – hopscotch
• HAFTING
n. 1519 obs. – subtle dealing, dodging, cavilling; holding off, hesitation, demur
• HAFTY
adj. 1. Bk1905 Eng. dial. – handy, active
adj. 2. Bk1905 Eng. dial. – saucy, pert
n. 1925 Sc. – a smooth, flat stone used in the game of hopscotch
• HA-FUCKING-HA!
int. c1950 – a jeering mock-laugh to expose the feebleness of supposedly sarcastic or apt rejoinder, or impossible request
• HAG
adj. 1889 Eng. dial. – haggard
n. 1. a1300 Sc. & N. Eng. dial. obs. – a break, gap, or chasm in a crag or cliff
n. 2. 1377- an ugly, repulsive old woman; often implying viciousness or maliciousness
n. 3. a1529 obs. – applied opprobriously to a man
n. 4. 1538 obs. – applied to ghosts, hobgoblins, and other terrors of the night
n. 5. 1552 obs. or arch. – an evil spirit, demon, or infernal being in female form
n. 6. 1587 – a woman supposed to have dealings with Satan and the infernal world; a witch; an infernally wicked woman
n. 7. 1589 N. Eng. dial. – a wooded enclosure; a wood; a copse
n. 8. 1611 obs. – an object of terror; a bogey
n. 9. 1615 Sc. & N. Eng. dial. – the stump of a tree left after felling
n. 10. 1632 obs. – the nightmare
n. 11. 1662 Sc. & N. Eng. dial. – wild, broken ground; rocky moorland; a piece of soft bog in a moor or morass; a marsh
n. 12. 1702 Sc. – a notch, a hack; the mark left by an axe-stroke
n. 13. 1790 Eng. dial. – the paunch, the belly
n. 14. 1794 Eng. dial. – a thick white mist or fog
n. 15. 1808 Sc. & N. Eng. dial. – a cutting, hewing, or felling
n. 16. 1809 Eng. dial. – idle disorder
n. 17. 1820 Sc. – brushwood, branches of felled trees used for fuel or firewood
n. 18. 1863 Sc. – a stall-fed ox
n. 19. 1866 Sc. – thrift, economy
n. 20. 1879 Eng. dial. – a hedge or fence
n. 21. 1887 Eng. dial. – a task
n. 22. 1899 Sc. – one who tends fat cattle
n. 23. Bk1905 Eng. dial. – a rock or cliff; an abrupt, cliffy prominence
n. 24. Bk1905 Eng. dial. – a violent, ill-tempered woman; a scold; an ugly, dirty woman
n. 25. Bk1905 Eng. dial. – a worry, trouble, burden; a difficulty
n. 26. Bk1905 Eng. dial. – one who does another’s tasks; a drudge
n. 27. 1920s US college sl. – an unattractive or sexually promiscuous young woman
n. 28. 1967 Amer. dial. – an old man; used as a jocular or opprobrious nickname
n. 29. 1980s sl. – an unattractive (older) homosexual man
vb. 1. c1400 N. Eng. dial. – to hew; to chop; to cut down with an axe; to hack, to cut clumsily or roughly
vb. 2. 1587 obs. exc. Eng. dial. – to incite, to urge; to try to persuade
vb. 3. 1598 obs. exc. Eng. dial. – to torment or terrify as a hag; to trouble as the nightmare
vb. 4. 1674 obs. exc. Eng. & Amer. dial. – to fatigue, to tire out
vb. 5. 1727 Sc. – to bungle, to mangle any business
vb. 6. 1746 Eng. dial. – to worry, to tease; to nag at
vb. 7. a1763 obs. – to go wearily
vb. 8. 1806 Eng. & Amer. dial. – to excite to quarrel; to provoke, to irritate; to annoy, to incite; to complain, to find fault
vb. 9. 1848 Sc. – to cut down trees, strip off, dry and stack the bark, saw up and sort the timber
vb. 10. 1870 Eng. dial. – to pull, to draw; to drag out
vb. 11. 1891 – to overwork and underpay, to ‘sweat’
vb. 12. 1892 Eng. dial.- to haggle, to dispute, to argue
vb. 13. 1899 Sc. – to manage well, to be economical, to save
vb. 14. 19C US sl. – to bring bad luck upon
vb. 15. Bk1905 Eng. dial. – of the moon: to wane
vb. 16. Bk1905 Eng. dial. – to rob, to take
vb. 17. 1929 Sc. – to impede or check, to take by surprise, to thwart, to hinder
vb. 18. 1938 Amer. dial. – to cast spells; to cast a spell on, to bring misfortune to
vb. 19. 1940s US sl. – to discuss critically
• HAG-A-BAG
n. 1808 Sc. obs. – refuse of any kind
• HAG-ABOUT
n. 1872 Eng. dial. – an idle, lounging fellow
• HAG-A-KNOWE
n. Bk1905 Eng. dial. – an ungainly blockhead
• HAG AND HAIN
vb. 1908 Sc. – to scrimp and save
• HAGARIAN
adj. 1940s W. Indies sl. – oafish, uncouth, rough
• HAGAR RACE
n. 1965 African-American usage – the Black race
• HAGAR’S CHILDREN
n. 1954 African-American usage – the Black race
• HAGASTED
adj. 1866 Sc. – familiar with a place through long residence there
• HAG AT A THING
vb. Bk1905 Eng. dial. – to persevere, to labour, to work away at a thing
• HAG-BEGAGGED
adj. 1876 Eng. dial. – bewitched
• HAG-BLOCK
n. 1877 Eng. dial. – a chopping-block; a large block of wood, used to chop firewood, etc. on
• HAG-BOAT
n. 1966 Amer. dial. – an old, clumsy boat
• HAG BRIDLE
n. 1909 Amer. dial. – the trickle of saliva which often runs from the mouth corners in troubled and uneasy sleep
• HAG-CLOG
n. 1828 – a chopping-block; a large block of wood, used to chop firewood, etc. on
• HAGEGY
adj. 1867 Eng. dial. – untidy, slovenly; loose
• HAGER
adj. 1. Bk1905 Eng. dial. – fierce, cruel, evil
adj. 2. Bk1905 Eng. dial. – ugly, deformed, rough
• HAGG
n. 1. a1300 Sc. & N. Eng. dial. obs. – a break, gap, or chasm in a crag or cliff
n. 2. 1796 Eng. dial. – a wooded enclosure; a wood, copse
n. 3. 1824 Sc. & N. Eng. dial. – wild, broken ground; rocky moorland
n. 4. 1863 Sc. – a stall-fed ox
n. 5. 1879 Eng. dial. – a hedge or fence
n. 6. 1899 Sc. – one who tends fat cattle
n. 7. Bk1905 Eng. dial. – a rock or cliff; an abrupt, cliffy prominence
n. 8. Bk1905 Eng. dial. – a worry, trouble, burden; a difficulty
n. 9. Bk1905 Eng. dial. – one who does another’s tasks; a drudge
vb. 1. 1746 Eng. dial. – to worry, to tease; to nag at
vb. 2. 1808 Eng. dial. – to excite to quarrel; to provoke, to irritate
vb. 3. 1808 Eng. dial. – to incite, to urge; to try to persuade
vb. 4. 1892 Eng. dial. – to haggle, to dispute, to argue
vb. 5. Bk1905 Eng. dial. – to fatigue, to tire out
• HAGGAGE
n. 1746 Eng. dial. – a term of reproach for a woman; an untidy, slatternly, or slovenly woman
• HAGGAGING
adj. 1876 Eng. dial. – untidy, slovenly; loose
n. 1876 Eng. dial. – a term of reproach for a woman
• HAGGAR
adj. Bk1905 Eng. dial. – wild, untamed
• HAGGARD
adj. 1. 1567 obs. – of a hawk or owl: caught after having assumed the adult plumage; hence, wild, untamed
adj. 2. 1580 obs. – froward, contrary, stubborn, cross, unsociable
adj. 3. 1580 obs. – wild, untamed, unreclaimed, untrained
adj. 4. 1615 obs. rare – of birds: in disordered or ragged plumage
adj. 5. 1630 obs. – half-starved; gaunt, lean
adj. 6. 1697 – of a person: wild-looking; originally applied to the ‘wild’ expression of the eyes
n. 1. 1579 obs. – a wild and intractable person; one not to be captured; originally a female
n. 2. 1658 obs. – a hag, a witch
n. 3. 1813 Sc. – an opprobrious epithet for a butcher
• HAGGART
n. 1808 Sc. – an old, useless horse
• HAGGED
adj. 1. 1694 obs. exc. Eng. dial. – lean, gaunt; haggard; worn-out, tired
adj. 2. a1700 obs. exc. Eng. dial. – bewitched, enchanted
adj. 3. a1700 obs. exc. Eng. dial. – witch-like
• HAGGED ABOUT
adj. 1873 Eng. dial. – to be buffeted about, treated unkindly
• HAGGED OUT
adj. 1. 1968 US sl. – exhausted
adj. 2. 2001 US sl. – of a woman: ugly
• HAGGER
n. 1. 18C Sc. – something that hacks; a sword
n. 2. 1825 Sc. – a woodcutter, one who uses an axe or hatchet
n. 3. 1866 Sc. – a deep cut such as is made by a knife or other slashing instrument
n. 4. 1894 Eng. dial. – a coal-hewer
n. 5. Bk1905 Sc. – a fine small rain
n. 6. 1920 Sc. – a choppy sea, accompanied by wind and rain
vb. 1. 1808 Sc. – to drizzle, to rain gently
vb. 2. 1866 Sc. –to cut, to slice clumsily or unevenly so as to leave a jagged edge; to hack, to mangle
vb. 3. 1871 Eng. dial. – in marbles: to win all an opponent’s marbles, etc.
vb. 4. Bk1905 Eng. dial. – of the teeth: to chatter with cold
vb. 5. 1970 Amer. dial. – to haggle over a price
• HAGGERAL
n. 1. 1866 Sc. – a large, jagged cut
n. 2. 1866 Sc. – a large, open, festering sore
• HAGGERAWATOR
n. M19 – a favoured costermongers’ hairstyle, consisting of a well-greased lock of hair twisted and pointing either at the corner of an eye or at an ear
• HAGGERDASH
adv. 1808 Sc. obs. – in confusion, in a disorderly state; in a topsy-turvy manner
n. 1825 Sc. obs. – disorder, a broil
• HAGGERDECASH
adv. 1808 Sc. obs. – in confusion, in a disorderly state; in a topsy-turvy manner
n. Bk1905 Sc. – disorder; a broil
• HAGGERED
adj. 1825 Sc. – jaggedly cut, full of notches, mangled
• HAGGERIN AND SWAGGERIN
adj. 1. 1825 Sc. – in a poor state of health
adj. 2. 1825 Sc. – having a poor head for business affairs
• HAGGER-MAKER’S SHOP
n. Bk1905 Eng. dial. – a public-house
• HAGGERSHANK
adj. 1913 Sc. obs. – stingy, mean
• HAGGERSNASH
adj. 1821 Sc. – spiteful, sharp, tart
n. 1. 1808 Sc. obs. – a medley, conglomeration
n. 2. 1808 Sc. obs. – offal, scraps of meat
n. 3. B1900 Sc. – a spiteful person
n. 4. B1900 Sc. – tart language
• HAGGERTY-TAG
adv. 1825 Sc. – in an untidy, ragged manner
• HAGGERTY-TAGGERTY
adj. 1825 Sc. – in a ragged state; tattered; like a ragamuffin
• HAGGERTY-TAG-LIKE
adj. 1825 Sc. – ragged, tattered, ragamuffin
• HAGGESS
n. 1599 obs. – the magpie
• HAGGEY
adj. Bk1905 Eng. dial. – tiring, fatiguing
• HAGGING
adj. Bk1905 Eng. dial. – tiring, fatiguing
n. 1. 1584 obs. rare – the meeting of hags or witches
n. 2. Bk1905 Eng. dial. – practising the arts of a witch
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• HAGGIS
n. 1. 1755 Sc. & N. Eng. dial. – the stomach of a man or animal; the paunch
n. 2. 1822 – a term of contempt applied to a lumpish, unwieldy person; a soft, ‘pudding-headed’ person; an indolent, do-nothing fellow
n. 3. 1929 Sc. – a botched job, a mess
vb. 1849 Eng. dial. – in boxing: to bruise, to cut up
• HAGGIS-BAG
n. 1844 Sc. – a windbag; a contemptuous term for anything
• HAGGIS-HEADED
adj. 1715 Sc. – soft-headed, foolish, stupid
• HAGGIS-HEART
n. 1812 Sc. – a soft, cowardly heart
• HAGGISLAND
n. L19 sl. – Scotland
• HAGGIS MCBAGPIPE
n. 1989 Can. sl. – British Columbia radio and television personality, Jack Webster
• HAGGISS
n. 1655 obs. – the magpie
• HAGGISTER
n. 1584 obs. exc. Eng. dial. – the magpie, Pica rustica
• HAGGIT
adj. 1806 Sc. & Eng. dial. – tired, worn out; harassed, careworn, thin
• HAGGLE
n. 1. 1866 Sc. – a struggle, a laborious effort; a fatiguing walk, owing to a burden, distance, etc.
n. 2. 1887 Eng. dial. – hail; a hailstone
n. 3. Bk1905 Eng. dial. – a mild dispute; the process of bargaining
n. 4. 1929 Sc. – an uneven cut, a hack
n. 5. 1929 Sc. – a botch, a bungle, a tangle
n. 6. 1929 Sc. – a person who has no method and is always in a muddle
n. 7. 1930 Sc. – a straggling disorderly procession
vb. 1. 1583 – to advance with difficulty and obstruction
vb. 2. 1599 – to mangle with repeated irregular cuts or cutting blows; to cut clumsily with uneven jagged edges; to hack, to mangle, to mutilate; to bungle
vb. 3. 1691 Eng. dial. – to hail
vb. 4. 1731 Sc. – to hesitate, to stumble
vb. 5. 1777 Sc. & Eng. dial. – to chatter; to quarrel, to bicker
vb. 6. 1777 Sc. & Eng. dial. – to dispute; to cavil; to argue; esp., to dispute the terms of a bargain
vb. 7. 1825 Sc. – to carry with difficulty something cumbersome or awkward
vb. 8. Bk1905 Amer. dial. – to tease, to worry, to harass; to over-work, to fatigue, to tire out
• HAGGLE-BARGAIN
n. 1. 1802 Sc. – a person who has difficulty in coming to terms over a bargain
n. 2. 1818 Sc. – a dispute, prolonged bargaining
vb. 1898 Sc. – to argue, to wrangle over the price of anything
• HAGGLE-CART
n. 1899 Eng. dial. – a horse and cart let out on hire to do rough work or odd jobs
• HAGGLED
adj. 1. 1894 Sc. – mangled, hacked, mutilated
adj. 2. Bk1905 Eng. dial. – wearied, harassed, worn out
• HAGGLER
n. 1. 1577 obs. exc. Eng. dial. – a clumsy, awkward workman; a bungler
n. 2. 1851 Eng. dial. – a peddler, a huckster
n. 3. Bk1905 Eng. dial. – the upper servant of a farm
• HAGGLE-STONE
n. 1887 Eng. dial. – hail; a hailstone
• HAGGLE-TOOTH
n. Bk1905 Eng. dial. – a tooth that belongs to the second set which appears prematurely through the gum and projects
• HAGGLE-TOOTHED
adj. 1777 Eng. dial. – having prominent or projecting teeth
• HAGGLIE
adj. 1825 Sc. – rough, unevenly cut
• HAGGLIN’
adj. 1831 Sc. – rash, incautious
• HAGGLING
adj. Bk1902 Sc. & Eng. dial. – vexatious, trying, wearisome
n. 1888 Sc. & Eng. dial. – a dispute, an argument; a prolonged bargaining
• HAGGLY
adj. 1. 1825 Eng. dial. – bearing the marks of having been unevenly and clumsily cut
adj. 2. 1864 – moving with obstruction and difficulty
adj. 3. 1866 Sc. – hesitant, stumbling, lacking fluency
adj. 4. 1939 Amer. dial. – rough; covered with rocks
• HAGGOKNOW
n. Bk1905 Eng. dial. – an ungainly blockhead
• HAGGOM
n. 1781 Eng. dial. – the adder or viper; a snake of any kind
• HAGGRIE
n. 1866 Sc. – an unseemly mass; often spoken of food badly cooked and served up in an untidy way
• HAGGY
adj. 1. Bk1905 Eng. dial. – misty from the frost
adj. 2. 20C US sl. – of a woman: possessing the attributes of a hag; ugly
• HAGGY MOLL
n. 1928 Amer. sl. – a thin, drooping, unattractive female
• HAGHER
adj. c1200 obs. – skilful, clever, dexterous; apt, fit
• HAGHOG
n. 1720 Eng. dial. obs. – a hedgehog
• HAGIARCHY
n. 1826 – the rule or order of saints
• HAGIL-BARGAIN
n. 1802 Sc. – one who is difficult to come to terms with in making a bargain
• HAGIOCRACY
n. 1846 – a government or sovereignty of persons esteemed holy
• HAGIOGRAPHER
n. 1. 1656 – he that writes holy things; a sacred writer
n. 2. 1849 – a writer of saints’ lives
• HAGIOGRAPHIC
adj. 1819 – pert. to the writing of saints’ lives
• HAGIOGRAPHIST
n. 1817 – a writer of saints’ lives
• HAGIOGRAPHY
n. 1821 – the writing of the lives of saints; saints’ lives as a branch of literature or legend
• HAGIOLATER
n. 1875 – one who worships saints
• HAGIOLATROUS
adj. 1841 – given to saint worship
• HAGIOLATRY
n. 1808 – the worship of saints
• HAGIOLOGIC
adj. 1826 – pert. to hagiology
• HAGIOLOGICAL
adj. 1872 – pert. to hagiology
• HAGIOLOGIST
n. 1805 – one versed in the legends of saints; a writer of hagiology
• HAGIOLOGY
n. 1807 – the literature that treats of the lives and legends of saints; by extension, also, of great men or heroes; a work on the lives and legends of the saints
• HAGIOMANIA
n. 1797 – a mania for sainthood
• HAGISTER
n. 1691 Eng. dial. – the magpie, Pica rustica
• HAGLESS
adj. 1. 1908 Sc. – lavish, wasteful
adj. 2. 1928 Sc. –boundless, illimitable
• HAGLI
adj. 1928 Sc. – orderly, tidy, careful, convenient
• HAG-LOG
n. 1894 Sc. – a chopping block
• HAGMAHUSH
n. 1801 Sc. – an awkward sloven
• HAG-MALL
n. 1872 Eng. dial. – a sloven, a slattern
• HAGMAN
n. 1. 1795 Sc. & N. Eng. dial. – one who gains his living by felling and selling wood; a woodcutter
n. 2. 1825 Sc. – one who sells wood he has cut himself
n. 3. 1882 Sc. – a cattleman
• HAG-MARK
n. 1897 Sc. – a boundary stone; a stone set up to indicate the line of division between separate districts
• HAG-MASTER
n. 1887 Eng. dial. – the overseer who apportions out the ‘hag-work’
• HAG PARTY
n. 1920s US college sl., derogatory – a party for women
• HAG PILE
n. 1882 Sc. – a pile or stack of firewood
• HAG RICE
vb. 1871 Eng. dial. – to do anything speedily, to make a swift clearance of anything, as food at the table
• HAG-RID
adj. 1886 – affected by nightmare
• HAG-RIDDEN
adj. 1. 1684 – affected by nightmare
adj. 2. 1702 – oppressed in mind; harassed
• HAGRIDDEN
adj. 1909 Amer. dial. – affected by nightmares
• HAG-RIDE
vb. 1661 Sc. & Amer. dial. – to harass, to torment, esp. during sleep; to cause nightmares or nightmare-like experiences
• HAG-ROAD
n. 1878 Eng. dial. – a path or way cut through the undergrowth of a wood
• HAGSMASH
n. 20C Irish sl. – a botched, inadequate piece of work
• HAGSNARE
n. 1796 Sc. & N. Eng. dial. – the stump of a tree left after felling
• HAG SPIRIT
n. 1894 Amer. dial., esp. African-American – a witch; the evil spirit of a dead person, sometimes supposed to cause nightmares
• HAG STACK
n. 1882 Sc. – a pile or stack of firewood
• HAG-STOCK
n. 1894 – a chopping-block; a large block of wood, used to chop firewood, etc. on
• HAG-STONE
n. 1887 Eng. dial. – hail; a hailstone
• HAG-STOP
n. Bk1905 Eng. dial. – weariness; a stoppage, dilemma
• HAG-TRACK
n. 1858 – fairy ring
• HAG-WAY
n. 1878 Eng. dial. – a path or way cut through the undergrowth of a wood
• HAGWESH
n. Bk1905 Eng. dial. – ruin, bankruptcy
• HAGWIFE
n. 1. 1779 Sc. obs. – a woman who cuts or prepares meat, a female butcher
n. 2. 1883 Sc. – a midwife
• HAG-WORM
n. 1483 Eng. dial. – the adder or viper; a snake of any kind
• HA-HA
n. 1. 1712 – a boundary to a garden, pleasure-ground, or park, of such a kind as not to interrupt the view from within, and not to be seen till closely approached; consisting of a trench, the inner side of which is perpendicular and faced with stone, the outer sloping and turfed; a sunk fence
n. 2. L19 nursery usage – a defecation
n. 3. L19 sl. – a laugh of ridicule or derision
n. 4. 1970s drug culture sl. – marijuana
n. 5. 1979 US sl. – a glass of beer; beer
• HA-HA BIRD
n. 1938 Aust. sl. – a kookaburra
• HA-HA PIGEON
n. 1938 Aust. sl. – a kookaburra
• HAH-HAH
n. L19 US sl. – a laugh of ridicule or derision
• HA’-HOUSE
n. 1814 Sc. – the manor-house, the habitation of a landed proprietor (ha’ = hall)
• HAHT
n. c1200 obs. – peril, risk
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