victoriousvocabulary: HARPY[noun]1. Classical Mythology: female monsters in the form of birds with h
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victoriousvocabulary: HARPY[noun]1. Classical Mythology: female monsters in the form of birds with human faces. They steal food from their victims while they are eating and carry evildoers (especially those who have killed their family) to the Erinyes. They seem originally to have been wind spirits. Their name means “snatchers”.2. a scolding, nagging and ill-tempered woman; a shrew.3. a greedy, predatory person.Etymology: from Latin Harpȳia, singular of Harpȳiae < Greek Hárpȳiai (plural), literally, snatchers, akin to harpázein, “to snatch away”. [Waldemar Kazak - Garpiya] -- source link
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