英语词汇“old hag”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

Old Hag n. chiefly Newfoundland (now usually with the) a spirit or supernatural being believed to produce a feeling of suffocation in a sleeping person or animal; (also) a feeling of suffocation or paralysis experienced during sleep, often accompanied by nightmares; cf. old higue n.In early use (with indefinite article and lower case initials) probably not a fixed collocation, but simply hag n.¹ 5 modified by old.

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1836 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. 18 395 The condition of the individual is rapidly rendered more distressing by the delusion that takes possession of his dream, that a giant, a great dog, a bear, an old hag, &c. is mounted upon his breast.

1896 Jrnl. Amer. Folk-lore 9 222 A man at Change Islands..told me he had been ridden to death by an old hag, until a knowledgeable old man advised him to drive nails through a shingle, and lash it to his breast when he went to bed.

1984 Med. Anthropol. Q. 15 50/2 A person who experiences the Old Hag awakes to a frightening sensation of being pressed down upon the bed or strangled.

2005 St John's (Newfoundland) Telegram (Nexis) 28 Mar. a7 ‘Guaranteed, every Friday,’ Stephanie said, ‘I'd get the Old Hag.’.. ‘I was frozen. I couldn't move.’

单词	old hag
释义	> as lemmas Old Hag Old Hag n. chiefly Newfoundland (now usually with the) a spirit or supernatural being believed to produce a feeling of suffocation in a sleeping person or animal; (also) a feeling of suffocation or paralysis experienced during sleep, often accompanied by nightmares; cf. old higue n.In early use (with indefinite article and lower case initials) probably not a fixed collocation, but simply hag n.¹ 5 modified by old. ΚΠ 1836 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. 18 395 The condition of the individual is rapidly rendered more distressing by the delusion that takes possession of his dream, that a giant, a great dog, a bear, an old hag, &c. is mounted upon his breast. 1896 Jrnl. Amer. Folk-lore 9 222 A man at Change Islands..told me he had been ridden to death by an old hag, until a knowledgeable old man advised him to drive nails through a shingle, and lash it to his breast when he went to bed. 1984 Med. Anthropol. Q. 15 50/2 A person who experiences the Old Hag awakes to a frightening sensation of being pressed down upon the bed or strangled. 2005 St John's (Newfoundland) Telegram (Nexis) 28 Mar. a7 ‘Guaranteed, every Friday,’ Stephanie said, ‘I'd get the Old Hag.’.. ‘I was frozen. I couldn't move.’ extracted from oldadj. < as lemmas
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