hagridden

English

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Etymology

From hag +‎ ridden.

Adjective

hagridden (comparative more hagridden, superlative most hagridden)

  1. Tormented by witches, demons, or evil spirits.
    • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Phantom Rickshaw”, in The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and Co., page 9:
      Two months afterwards he was reported fit for duty, but, in spite of the fact that he was urgently needed to help an undermanned Commission stagger through a deficit, he preferred to die; vowing at the last that he was hag-ridden.
  2. Tormented, harassed or worried.
    • 1906 March, Bradford Torrey, “Anatole France”, in The Atlantic‎[1]:
      So Sir Walter Scott, hag-ridden by debt, if he finished a novel in the morning began another in the afternoon, because, as he explained, it was less difficult to keep the machine running than to start it again after a rest.
  3. Overburdened by fear or dread.

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