beldam

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No wastrels, no disturbers of the public peace, the two old beldams were permitted to continue peacefully in their squalor.

From Time Magazine Archive

To Mussorgsky's spooky Night on Bald Mountain, hobgoblins and beldams ride their brooms.

From Time Magazine Archive

But withered beldams old and droll, Rigwoodie92 hags wad spean93 a foal, Lowping and flinging on a crummock,94 I wonder didna turn thy stomach.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 by Warner, Charles Dudley

Dietrich interrupted them, saying that it ill beseemed heroes to scold like ancient beldams, and forbade Hildebrand to say more.

From Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine by Spence, Lewis

Let belles turn beldams if they find it jolly.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, June 13, 1891 by Various