harpy

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harpy

Ultimately from Middle French harpie, from Latin harpyia, from Ancient Greek Ἅρπυια (Hárpuia, literally “snatcher”), from ἁρπάζω (harpázō, “I snatch, seize”). Compare rapacious. Middle English had arpie.

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Rhymes: -ɑː(r)pi
Hyphenation: har‧py

harpy (plural harpies)

A fabulous winged monster, ravenous and filthy, having the face of a woman and the body of a vulture.
- Milton
  Both table and provisions vanished quite,
  With sound of harpies' wings and talons heard.
A shrewish woman.
- 1927, Edgar Rice Burrows, The Outlaw of Torn‎^[1], HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2008:
  But her most subtle wiles proved ineffectual in ridding her, even for a moment, of her harpy jailer […]
One who is rapacious or ravenous; an extortioner.
- Goldsmith
  The harpies about all pocket the pool.
The European moor buzzard or marsh harrier (Circus aeruginosus).
A large and powerful double-crested, short-winged American eagle (Harpia harpyja).

Fabulous winged monster with the face of a woman

Obnoxious, shrewish woman