A malicious woman with a fierce temper.

synoniemen: hellcat, vixen.

Roget 792: thief, robber, homo triumliterarum [Lat.], pilferer, rifler, filcher^†, plagiarist.    spoiler, depredator, pillager, marauder; harpy, shark [Slang], land shark, falcon, mosstrooper^†, bushranger^†, Bedouin^†, brigand, freebooter, bandit, thug, dacoit^†; pirate, corsair, viking, Paul Jones^†, buccaneer, buccanier^†; piqueerer^†, pickeerer^†; rover, ranger, privateer, filibuster; rapparee^†, wrecker, picaroon^†; smuggler, poacher; abductor, badger [Slang], bunko man, cattle thief, chor^†, contrabandist^†, crook, hawk, holdup man, hold-up [U.S.], jackleg [U.S.], kidnaper, rustler, cattle rustler, sandbagger, sea king, skin [Slang], sneak thief, spieler^†, strong-arm man [U.S.].    highwayman, Dick Turpin, Claude Duval, Macheath, footpad, sturdy beggar.    cut purse, pick purse; pickpocket, light-fingered gentry; sharper; card sharper, skittle sharper; thimblerigger; rook [Slang], Greek, blackleg, leg, welsher [Slang]; defaulter; Autolycus^†, Jeremy Diddler^†, Robert Macaire, artful dodger, trickster; swell mob [Slang], chevalier d'industrie [Fr.]; shoplifter.    swindler, peculator; forger, coiner; fence, receiver of stolen goods, duffer; smasher.    burglar, housebreaker; cracksman^†, magsman [Slang]; Bill Sikes, Jack Sheppard, Jonathan Wild.    gang [group of thieves], gang of thieves, theft ring; organized crime, mafia, the Sicilian Mafia, the mob, la cosa nostra [It].    [famous thieves], Dillinger, Al Capone; Robin Hood.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 980: demon, daemon, demonry^†, demonology; evil genius, fiend, familiar, daeva^†, devil; bad spirit, unclean spirit; cacodemon^†, incubus, Eblis, shaitan^†, succubus, succuba; Frankenstein's monster; Titan, Shedim, Mephistopheles, Asmodeus^†, Moloch, Belial, Ahriman^†; fury, harpy; Friar Rush.    vampire, ghoul; afreet^†, barghest^†, Loki; ogre, ogress; gnome, gin, jinn, imp, deev^†, lamia^†; bogie, bogeyman, bogle^†; nis^†, kobold^†, flibbertigibbet, fairy, brownie, pixy, elf, dwarf, urchin; Puck, Robin Goodfellow; leprechaun, Cluricaune^†, troll, dwerger^†, sprite, ouphe^†, bad fairy, nix, nixie, pigwidgeon^†, will-o'-the wisp.    [Supernatural appearance] ghost, revenant, specter, apparition, spirit, shade, shadow, vision; hobglobin, goblin, orc; wraith, spook, boggart^†, banshee, loup-garou [Fr.], lemures^†; evil eye.    merman, mermaid, merfolk^†; siren; satyr, faun; manito^†, manitou, manitu.    possession, demonic possession, diabolic possession; insanity etc. 503.    [in jest, in science] Maxwell's demon.    [person possessed by a demon] demoniac.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 819: parsimony, parcity^†; parsimoniousness^†, stinginess etc. adj.; stint; illiberality, tenacity.    avarice, greed etc. 817.1. miser, niggard, churl, screw, skinflint, crib, codger, muckworm^†, scrimp, lickpenny^†, hunks, curmudgeon, Harpagon, harpy, extortioner, Jew, usurer; Hessian [U.S.]; pinch fist, pinch penny.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 739: severity; strictness, harshness etc. adj.; rigor, stringency, austerity; inclemency etc. (pitilessness) 914.1; arrogance etc. 885; precisianism^†.    arbitrary power; absolutism, despotism; dictatorship, autocracy, tyranny, domineering, oppression; assumption, usurpation; inquisition, reign of terror, martial law; iron heel, iron rule, iron hand, iron sway; tight grasp; brute force, brute strength; coercion etc. 744; strong hand, tight hand.    hard lines, hard measure; tender mercies [Iron.]; sharp practice; pipe-clay, officialism.    tyrant, disciplinarian, precisian^†, martinet, stickler, bashaw^†, despot, hard master, Draco, oppressor, inquisitor, extortioner, harpy, vulture; accipitres^†, birds of prey, raptorials^†, raptors^†.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 913: evil doer, evil worker; wrongdoer etc. 949; mischief-maker, marplot; oppressor, tyrant; destroyer, Vandal; iconoclast^†.    firebrand, incendiary, fire bug [U.S.], pyromaniac; anarchist, communist^†, terrorist.    savage, brute, ruffian, barbarian, semibarbarian^†, caitiff, desperado; Apache^†, hoodlum, hood, plug-ugly [U.S.], Red Skin, tough [U.S.]; Mohawk, Mo-hock, Mo-hawk; bludgeon man, bully, rough, hooligan, larrikin^†, dangerous classes, ugly customer; thief etc. 792.    cockatrice, scorpion, hornet.    snake, viper, adder, snake in the grass; serpent, cobra, asp, rattlesnake, anaconda^†.    canker-worm, wire-worm; locust, Colorado beetle; alacran^†, alligator, caymon^†, crocodile, mosquito, mugger, octopus; torpedo; bane etc. 663.    cutthroat etc. (killer) 461.    cannibal; anthropophagus^†, anthropophagist^†; bloodsucker, vampire, ogre, ghoul, gorilla, vulture; gyrfalcon^†, gerfalcon^†.    wild beast, tiger, hyena, butcher, hangman; blood-hound, hell-hound, sleuth-hound; catamount [U.S.], cougar, jaguar, puma.    hag, hellhag^†, beldam, Jezebel.    monster; fiend etc. (demon) 980; devil incarnate, demon in human shape; Frankenstein's monster.    harpy, siren; Furies, Eumenides.    Hun, Attila^†, scourge of the human race.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: helleveeg, moervos
Pools: cyrkówka, lisica, diablica, filutka

Greek mythology Vicious winged monster; often depicted as a bird with the head of a woman.

Pools: harpia

Any of various fruit bats of the genus Nyctimene distinguished by nostrils drawn out into diverging tubes.

synoniemen: harpy bat, tube-nosed bat, tube-nosed fruit bat.

Nederlands: harpij

Large black-and-white crested eagle of tropical America.

synoniemen: Harpia harpyja, harpy eagle.

Nederlands: harpij
Pools: harpia, harpia wielka