ježibaba — meaning in English

English meaning

• bag noun A flexible container, often with an opening at the top, used to hold or carry items.
• biddy noun An informal, often unkind term for an older woman seen as fussy or gossipy.
• hag noun An ugly or frightening old woman, especially one associated with witchcraft in folklore.

Senses

ježibaba is used for these senses in English:

• Baba Yaga (Slavic mythology) In Russian, Finno-Ugric, Polish and Bulgarian tales, a character who lives in a hut standing on chicken legs and who flies through the air in a mortar, using the pestle as a rudder.
• bag (derogatory) An ugly woman.
• biddy (derogatory) A woman, especially an old woman; especially one regarded as fussy or mean or a gossipy busybody.
• hag A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; a female wizard.
• hag (pejorative) An ugly old woman.

bag — full definition

1. noun A flexible container, often with an opening at the top, used to hold or carry items.
2. verb To put something into a bag, or more broadly, to succeed in getting or catching something.

biddy — full definition

1. noun An informal, often unkind term for an older woman seen as fussy or gossipy.
2. noun A call used to summon a hen or chicken.

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