OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 13489

harpy

/ˈhɑɹpi/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
arpía • harpía
A shrewish woman.
But her most subtle wiles proved ineffectual in ridding her, even for a moment, of her harpy jailer[…]
[…] Ed Miliband has yet to come up with a definition of “the squeezed middle” that excludes anyone, but you can bet your bottom dollar he has these laptop-wielding harpies in mind.
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