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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fussy old woman |
| Synonyms: | battle-ax, beldam, crone, fishwife, fussbudget, fusspot, hag, witch |
| Main Entry: | hag |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | biddy |
| Synonyms: | Jezebel, Medusa, bag, battle-ax, beldam, biddy, crone, fishwife, fury, gorgon, harpy, harridan, ogress, shrew, slattern, sorceress, termagant, virago, vixen, witch |
| Main Entry: | maid |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | servant |
| Synonyms: | au pair, biddy, chambermaid, cleaning lady, cleaning woman, damsel, domestic, factotum, girl, handmaiden, help, hired girl, housemaid, live-in, maidservant, miss, nursemaid, woman |
| Notes: | made means produced by a manufacturing process, while a maid is a female servant or an unmarried girl |
| Main Entry: | matron |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | woman |
| Synonyms: | administrator, biddy, dame, dowager, grande dame, housekeeper, housemother, lady, matriarch, mother, superintendent, wife |
| Antonyms: | patron |
| Main Entry: | shrew |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mean lady |
| Synonyms: | amazon, backbiter, battle-ax, biddy, bitch, calumniator, carper, detractor, dragon, fire-eater, fishwife, fury, harpy, harridan, hell cat, hellion, hussy, madcap, muckraker, nag, ogress, old biddy, porcupine, reviler, scold, she-devil, she-wolf, siren, spitfire, termagant, tigress, virago, vituperator, vixen, wench |
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