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beldam

noun as in ugly woman

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“Oh, keep going,” whispered a ghost voice in her ear, “for the beldam is angry.”

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The old beldam called him, and thought him, the shrewdest boy that ever lived; but, in truth, she had left him no longer a boy, in aught but size and looks.

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"Well, well, scornful mistress Lena, you may rue," replied the beldam.

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"That beldam!" he exclaimed, with a terrible oath, and then, "God help them!" he said--twice.

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To show the beldam daughters of her daughter.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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