harridan
Meaning of harridan
noun
- a strict, bossy, or belligerent old woman.
a bullying old harridan
late 17th century (originally slang): perhaps from French haridelle ‘old horse’.
Information about harridan
- It is a name.
- The plural form of harridan is: harridans.
- Languages in which harridan is used:
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Hyphenation of harridan
har-ri-dan
- It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
- harridan is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
harridan synonyms
Meaning a bad-tempered or aggressively assertive woman:
Meaning a domineering, violent, or bad-tempered woman:
Meaning a rapacious monster described as having a woman's head and body and a bird's wings and claws or depicted as a bird of prey with a woman's face:
Meaning a harsh-tempered or overbearing woman:
Meaning a spirited or fierce woman, especially one seen as sexually attractive:
Meaning a person who nags someone:
Meaning a witch:
Meaning an ugly old woman:
Meaning a mythical monster like a giant reptile. In European tradition the dragon is typically fire-breathing and tends to symbolize chaos or evil, whereas in East Asia it is usually a beneficent symbol of fe:
Meaning a female ogre:
Meaning a coarse-mannered woman who is prone to shouting:
Meaning a spiteful, violent woman:
Meaning wild or violent anger:
Meaning each of three sisters, Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa, with snakes for hair, who had the power to turn anyone who looked at them to stone. Medusa was killed by Perseus:
Meaning a person who demands complete obedience; a strict disciplinarian:
Meaning a hard calcified deposit that forms on the teeth and contributes to their decay:
Meaning a person with a fierce temper:
Meaning a fully grown female animal of a domesticated breed of ox, kept to produce milk or beef:
Meaning a female dog, wolf, fox, or otter:
Meaning a formidably aggressive older woman:
Meaning an ugly or unpleasant woman:
Meaning archaic term for target (sense 2 of the noun):
Meaning a person who nags or grumbles constantly (typically used of a woman):
Translation of harridan
Words that rhyme with harridan
Aidan, Haidan, maidan, carabidan, Arsacidan, Seleucidan, Heracleidan, araneidan, meliphagidan, phalangidan, Zahidan, melolonthidan, Heraclidan, Heraklidan, annelidan, basilidan, euclidan, euryalidan, hexactinellidan, iulidan, julidan, monactinellidan, ornithoscelidan, patellidan, pyralidan, rhabdocoelidan, serpulidan, sialidan, soclidan, tetractinellidan, myzostomidan, oxoimidan, adinidan, arachnidan, cyanidan, echinidan, ichneumonidan, methylofenidan, notidanidan, pseudarachnidan, secosolanidan, solanidan, fucoidan, hyoidan, molluscoidan, Pontoppidan, Rapidan, dasycarpidan, meropidan, oppidan
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