Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A woman regarded as bad-tempered and evil.
- noun A woman who practices sorcery; a witch.
- noun A person who torments others.
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- noun
Witch . - noun A violent person (especially a woman).
Etymologies
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Examples
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( "hellcat" Ida & slapping prostitute), and (as you suggest) combination good-mother/bad-mother (Peggy).
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( "hellcat" Ida & slapping prostitute), and (as you suggest) combination good-mother/bad-mother (Peggy).
CHE > Latest news 2010
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She was "brimful of hellcat fury," he wrote last week, recalling an episode that was presumably the 1968 equivalent of Paltrow striving to be "strong and not strident".
The strange case of Liz Taylor as a 'real woman' role model | Catherine Bennett 2011
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But hell will freeze over before I give you money to go and live with that hellcat you gave birth to.
My Sweet Audrina V.C. Andrews® 2010
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She was still the quick-tempered hellcat he remembered, but she had other tools at her disposal now.
Johanna Lindsey That Perfect Someone 2010
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Cheered on by a Washington media rooting section that could only be portrayed by a cackling Heath Ledger brought back from the dead and replicated to fill every seat at Politico, Edwards is now caricatured as a shrill, unhinged she-devil rending her garments in airports and slicing the Achilles tendons of underlings with the vicious alacrity of a demanding hellcat.
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“She fought like a hellcat, she bit and scratched and kicked,” the driver said.
Devil Dog David Talbot 2010
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Yeah, I was about to say she was bugging me, but now that I know she used to be a hellcat, I like her!
One running gag: announcing Draper’s office visitors after they’ve entered his office | clusterflock 2010
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She was still the quick-tempered hellcat he remembered, but she had other tools at her disposal now.
Johanna Lindsey That Perfect Someone 2010
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But hell will freeze over before I give you money to go and live with that hellcat you gave birth to.
My Sweet Audrina V.C. Andrews® 2010
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