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English Dictionary: harridan by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
harridan
n
  1. a scolding (even vicious) old woman
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Harridan \Har"ri*dan\, n. [F. haridelle a worn-out horse, jade.]
      A worn-out strumpet; a vixenish woman; a hag.
  
               Such a weak, watery, wicked old harridan, substituted
               for the pretty creature I had been used to see. --De
                                                                              Quincey.
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