Main Entry: 2witch Pronunciation Guide
Pronunciation: "
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): -es
Etymology: Middle English wicche, from Old English wicca, masculine, wizard & wicce, feminine, witch; akin to Old English wiccian to practice witchcraft, Middle High German wicken to bewitch, to divine, Old English wigle divination, wiglian to divine, wg idol, image, Old Norse v temple -- more at VICTIM
1 a dialect Britain : WIZARD, SORCERER b (1) : a woman practicing the black arts : SORCERESS <Halloween witch on a broomstick> <heard of one old witch changing herself into a pigeon -- John Rhys> (2) : an ugly old woman : CRONE, HAG <a skinny old witch with a face like a meat ax and a voice like a buzz saw -- Helen Eustis> c (1) : one supposed to possess supernatural powers especially by compact with the devil or a familiar (2) : a magic spell : HEX <it's my idea ... he put the witches on it -- Helen Rich> d or witch·er \-ch(r)\ -s : DOWSER
2 : one that bewitches <the quaint witch memory -- P.B.Shelley>; specifically : a particularly charming or alluring woman
3 a (1) : STORM PETREL (2) : GREBE (3) or witch bird : ANI b also witch flounder : a small-mouth blackish or brownish deepwater flounder (Glyptocephalus cynoglossus) of the north Atlantic that is of some importance as a food fish c : WITCH MOTH
, "cowriter" isn't listed, but COWRITES is.
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