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harridan
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synonyms: fishwife, gorgon, Xanthippe, virago, termagant ???
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Definition:a strict, bossy old woman; a hag
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Uses:
Violet: You try it and I'll hit you where I hit you last time!
Bruce: Harridan!
Violet: Lout!
BBC. Keeping Up Appearances: Christmas 1995
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a woman almost unsexed by misery, starvation, and the abnormal excitement engendered by daily spectacles of revenge and of cruelty. They were to be met with every day, round every street corner, these harridans, more terrible far than were the men.
Baroness Emmuska Orczy. The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
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that harridan mother of hers never had any patience with her daughter
V.C. Andrews. Flowers in the Attic, p.198 (1979)
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She had lied, the good lady! In his exasperation, Monsieur Bovary the elder, smashing a chair on the flags, accused his wife of having caused misfortune to the son by harnessing him to such a harridan, whose harness wasn't worth her hide.
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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