The difference between Hag and Shearwater

When used as nouns, hag means a witch, sorceress, or enchantress, whereas shearwater means any of various long-winged pelagic seabirds in the genera calonectris or puffinus, of the family procellariidae, that breed on islands and coastal cliffs.


Hag is also verb with the meaning: to harass.

check bellow for the other definitions of Hag and Shearwater

  1. Hag as a noun:

    A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; a wizard.

  2. Hag as a noun (pejorative):

    An ugly old woman.

  3. Hag as a noun:

    A fury; a she-monster.

  4. Hag as a noun:

    A hagfish; one of various eel-like fish of the family Myxinidae, allied to the lamprey, with a suctorial mouth, labial appendages, and a single pair of gill openings.

  5. Hag as a noun:

    A hagdon or shearwater; one of various sea birds of the genus Puffinus.

  6. Hag as a noun (obsolete):

    An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a man's hair.

  7. Hag as a noun:

    The fruit of the hagberry, Prunus padus.

  8. Hag as a noun (slang):

    sleep paralysis

  1. Hag as a noun:

    A small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or enclosed for felling, or which has been felled.

  2. Hag as a noun:

    A quagmire; mossy ground where peat or turf has been cut.

  1. Hag as a verb (transitive):

    To harass; to weary with vexation.

  1. Shearwater as a noun:

    Any of various long-winged pelagic seabirds in the genera Calonectris or Puffinus, of the family Procellariidae, that breed on islands and coastal cliffs.