hagborn

alternative hag-born · alternative hag-borne

1. archaicnot comparableBorn of a hag or witch.

   Out, thou freckled whelp ! thou hagborn ! Out, I say !

   1879, Augustus B. Wood, Cupid on Crutches, Or, One Summer at Narragansett Pier, page 113

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   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.

   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

   The hagborn creature came up to the captain and raised his right hand, palm out, in a rough salute.

   1946, Francis P. Scannell, In Line of Duty, page 39

   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.

   1982, The Granta, page 96