harridan
noun
1 harridan
A scolding (even vicious) old woman.
Roget 846:
ugliness
etc.
adj.;
deformity,
inelegance;
acomia†;
disfigurement
etc.
(blemish)
848;
want of symmetry,
inconcinnity†;
distortion
etc.
243;
squalor
etc.
(uncleanness)
653.
forbidding countenance,
vinegar aspect,
hanging look,
wry face,
spretae injuria formae"
[Vergil].
[person who is ugly]
eyesore,
object,
witch,
hag,
figure,
sight,
fright;
monster;
dog [Coll.],
woofer [Coll.],
pig [Coll.];
octopus,
specter,
scarecrow,
harridan†,
satyr†,
toad,
monkey,
baboon,
Caliban,
Aesop†,
monstrum horrendum informe ingens cui lumen monstrum horrendum informe ingens cui lumen ademptum [Lat.]
[Vergil].
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Roget 962:
libertine;
voluptuary
etc.
954.1;
rake,
debauchee,
loose fish,
rip,
rakehell†,
fast man;
intrigant†,
gallant,
seducer,
fornicator,
lecher,
satyr,
goat,
whoremonger,
paillard†,
adulterer,
gay deceiver,
Lothario,
Don Juan,
Bluebeard†;
chartered libertine.
adulteress,
advoutress†,
courtesan,
prostitute,
strumpet,
harlot,
whore,
punk,
fille de joie [Fr.];
woman,
woman of the town;
streetwalker,
Cyprian,
miss,
piece [Fr.];
frail sisterhood;
demirep,
wench,
trollop,
trull†,
baggage,
hussy,
drab,
bitch,
jade,
skit,
rig,
quean†,
mopsy†,
slut,
minx,
harridan;
unfortunate,
unfortunate female,
unfortunate woman;
woman of easy virtue
etc.
(unchaste)
961;
wanton,
fornicatress†;
Jezebel,
Messalina,
Delilah,
Thais,
Phryne,
Aspasia†,
Lais,
lorette†,
cocotte†,
petite dame,
grisette†;
demimonde;
chippy [U.S.];
sapphist†;
spiritual wife;
white slave.
concubine,
mistress,
doxy†,
chere amie [Fr.],
bona roba [It].
pimp,
procurer;
pander,
pandar†;
bawd,
conciliatrix†,
procuress†,
mackerel,
wittol†.
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Dutch: ouwe tang
Moby thesaurus: Jezebel, baboon, bad woman, bag, baggage, bitch, blemish, blot, broad, chippy, clitoromaniac, cocotte, dog, drab, easy lay, easy woman, eyesore, floozy, frail sister, fright, gargoyle, grisette, hag, hussy, hysteromaniac, jade, loose woman, mess, monster, monstrosity, no beauty, nymphet, nympho, nymphomaniac, pickup, quean, scarecrow, sight, slut, strumpet, tart, teratism, trollop, trull, ugly duckling, uteromaniac, wanton, wench, whore, witch ... show more.
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