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[hahr-i-dn] 
–noun
| a scolding, vicious woman; hag; shrew. |
Origin:
1690–1700; perh. alter of F haridelle thin, worn-out horse, large, gaunt woman (compared with the initial element of haras stud farm, though derivation is unclear)
1690–1700; perh. alter of F haridelle thin, worn-out horse, large, gaunt woman (compared with the initial element of haras stud farm, though derivation is unclear)
Synonyms:
nag, virago, scold.
nag, virago, scold.
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| har·ri·dan (hār'ĭ-dn) n. A woman regarded as scolding and vicious. [Possibly from French haridelle, gaunt woman, old horse, nag.] |
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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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harridan
1700, "one that is half Whore, half Bawd" ["Dictionary of the Canting Crew"]; "a decayed strumpet" [Johnson], from Fr. haridelle "a poore tit, or leane ill-favored jade," [Cotgrave, 1611], in Fr. from 16c., of unknown origin.
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