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hexed
[
heks
]
Origin
hex
1
/
hɛks
/
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heks
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verb (used with object)
1.
to bewitch; practice witchcraft on:
He was accused of hexing his neighbors' cows because they suddenly stopped giving milk.
noun
2.
spell; charm:
With all this rain, somebody must have put a hex on our picnic.
3.
a witch.
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an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
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Origin:
1820–30;
<
German
Hexe
witch;
see
hag
1
Related forms
hex·er,
noun
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hex
1830, from Pennsylvania Ger. hexe "to practice witchcraft," from Ger. hexen "to hex," related to Hexe "witch," from M.H.G. hecse, hexse, from O.H.G. hagazussa (see
hag
). Noun meaning "magic spell" is first recorded 1909.
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