hagborn
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- (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:
- 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.
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