Fireside+Poets+Vocabulary

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//definition:1. Greek Mythology One of several loathsome, voracious monsters with the head and trunk of a woman and the tail, wings, and talons of a bird. 2. harpy A predatory person. 3. harpy A shrewish woman. similar words: harpy origin: c.1375, from Gk. Harpyia (pl.), lit. "snatchers," probably related to harpazein "to snatch" (see rapid). In Homer, personification of whirlwinds and hurricanes; in Hesiod called sisters of Aello and Iris; later represented as ministers of divine vengeance: winged, clawed monsters with female heads and bodies. Metaphoric extension to "greedy person" is c.1400. sentence: When Norman accidentally stepped into the women's restroom, he was quickly evicted and chased out of the mall by a pair of harpies.//
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