[ noun ] a scolding (even vicious) old woman <noun.person>
Harridan \Har"ri*dan\ (h[a^]r"r[i^]*dan), n. [F. haridelle a worn-out horse, jade.] A worn-out strumpet; a vixenish woman; a hag.
Such a weak, watery, wicked old harridan, substituted for the pretty creature I had been used to see. --De Quincey.
Mr. Gill believes neither story and describes her as a harridan who pestered and tried to bully her son as long as she lived and, worse, as "ambitious, half-mad, sexually cold and drearily self-righteous."
Biting back at David Mellor for dubbing her a 'sabre-toothed old harridan' she boasts that 'it has never occurred to me to attack anyone for their looks or even to comment on them'.
The prematurely bald Kenneth has become a harridan, overripe, decayed and unpleasant, like an old mango.
In spite of being handicapped by dark glasses and a spooky white cape, Kerstin Witt as Mila's mother acted the disintegrating old harridan to the hilt.