A large strong and aggressive woman.
A vicious and scolding woman, especially an older one.
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Examples for "hag "
Examples for "hag "
1 When? he asked, dully remembering the drunken hag he had seen-agesago.
2 You should arrange for the hag to join the Freeing this year.
3 To this moment, he hadn't yet withdrawn any of the hag 's teeth.
4 The hag was standing in the kitchen door now, still grinning evilly.
5 The hag laid down the coins and moved laboriously to the, table.
1 Let them take that shrew of a wife, too! Baron Poll bellowed.
2 A sharp nose has been considered the visible mark of a shrew .
3 I've got some more crickets for the Etruscan shrew , the Beefeater called.
4 You remember I did my master's thesis on rock shrew cell differentiation?
5 His wife, Kate, is called a shrew on account of her ill-temper.
1 All semblance of harshness, and harridan - like spike-tonguedness vanished when she said adieu.
2 Somehow he must get this harridan out of the way at once!
3 She had never seen anything really useful around that white-haired harridan .
4 He cursed her for a noisy harridan ; then he said fretfully:
5 It was like a goad to the painted, shiny-eyed harridan on the sofa.
1 Every one was still chatting of the episode of the young virago .
2 Lavinia despite her terror of the beautiful virago never lost her self-control.
3 But instantly the woman was transformed into a cursing and swearing virago .
4 Yet the old virago evidently spoke from a broad background of experience.
5 A moment later she burst like a beautiful virago into the courtyard.
6 My virago can't stay long in the same place with her temper.
7 I stood upon the defensive between the virago and my sister's chair.
8 The woman who couldn't get on with you must be a virago .
9 I pity him for the prospect he has with such a virago !
10 Gregory agreed and talked at enthusiastic length about that stern virago .
11 And so the vile, vixenish virago wished the cat was dead.
12 The inanimate and delicate beauty then changed into a stormy virago .
13 My virago always gives me a dressing over the races, but I go.
14 A daughter of Beaumanoir does not share her lover with a crack-brained virago .
15 She has a very graceful virago - sleeve with handsome knots of ribbon.
16 He declared that they originated with that abominable virago , Mrs. Stantiloup.
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