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fishwife

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as in harridan

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Recent Examples of fishwife In addition to Brecht’s typical didacticism, there is a haunting passage for a fishwife whose son died in one of Lucullus’s campaigns. — Seth Colter Walls, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2020 An old fishwife sees a lobster try to escape and whacks it back in with her net. — Casey Quackenbush / Hong Kong, Time, 12 July 2018

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Noun

Into this vacuum, a misogynistic sense of her as a harridan or a drug-using flake emerged.

— Daniel D'Addario, Variety, 3 Feb. 2026
Given its plotting, Brooks’s movie could easily have made Iris into a harridan and Isaac into a sociopathic rogue.

— Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 15 Aug. 2025

Definition of harridan

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The studio is also developing an original horror film with Anna Chazelle based on the one of the Greek gorgon sisters, Medusa.

— Giana Levy, Variety, 23 Sep. 2025
Furs are werewolves, Fangs are vampires, Stoners are gorgons and Scales are sirens, leader of whom is Bianca Barclay (Joy Sunday).

— Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 4 Aug. 2025

Definition of gorgon

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As scholars note, the women involved were treated, so to speak, as both vixens and victims.

— Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026
But where the original video vixen era prioritized physical spectacle and often reduced its subjects to aesthetic objects, this new wave is about intentional community-building.

— Olivia Shalhoup, Forbes.com, 20 Apr. 2026

Definition of vixen

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Skin is important here, not just its color but its texture as Josephine, for example, goes from elegant sophisticate to sweaty, sunburned, frizzy virago increasingly swollen with pregnancy and angry mosquito bites.

— Jessica Kiang, Variety, 25 Aug. 2023
Meredith is a stereotypical virago updated with modern libertarian notions.

— Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2023

Definition of virago

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Like most eagles, the aviary says the female harpy is significantly larger than the male — sometimes twice the size.

— Madeline Bartos, CBS News, 28 May 2026
And because harpies rely on large emergent trees for nesting and an extensive, continuous canopy for hunting, even partial deforestation will severely disrupt their ability to breed and forage.

— Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026

Definition of harpy

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