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hell bride

hell bride noun: a female monster or demon; a hag, ogress, harpy or the like.

Noun

hell bride (plural hell brides)

  1. (literary) A female monster or demon; a hag, ogress, harpy or the like.
    • Grendel's mother,
      monstrous hell-bride, brooded on her wrongs.1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 42
    • While we moviegoers are nothing but grateful to Gaiman and Avery for their part in bringing us Ms. Jolie as the serpentine and mostly-naked hell-bride, there are scores of scholars out there who're peeved[.]2007 November, L33T, page 75, column 1

Forms of hell bride

pluralhell brides

Questions about hell bride

What does hell bride mean?
Hell bride means a female monster or demon; a hag, ogress, harpy or the like.
What part of speech is hell bride?
Hell bride is a noun.
What is the plural of hell bride?
The plural of hell bride is hell brides.

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