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Mischievous elves hid wicked lady?
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she-devil
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A woman whose bad temper, cruelty or wicked ways are so extreme as to evoke an image of the devil. 2 (context literally English) A female devil (versus a he-devil, male devil).
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
She-Devil is a 1989 American black comedy film directed by Susan Seidelman and written by Barry Strugatz and Mark R. Burns. It stars Meryl Streep , Ed Begley, Jr. , and Roseanne Barr in her film debut. A loose adaptation of the 1983 novel The Life and Loves ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"difficult woman," 1840, from she + devil (n.).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a cruel woman
Usage examples of she-devil.
Already by the second story featuring her ("The Song of Red Sonja," in Conan #24, which won the comicbook industry's own Academy Award for 1972), I had begun to see certain divergences from the original, such as (I like to think) Howard himself might have done if he'd decided to bring his red-tressed she-devil into the Hyborian Age.
This was the mad villain who'd kidnapped me to the Slave Coast on his hell-ship in '48 (on my own father-in-law's orders, too), and perforce I'd run black ivory with him, and fled from she-devil Amazons, and been hunted the length of the Mississippi, and lied truth out of Louisiana to keep both our necks out of a noose.
It is the work of the Duke of Burgundy and that she-devil, the Queen of France.
The last thing I remember was when I was all worked up trying to tell you what that she-devil is.
Asmodeus observed from his throne of linked, living she-devils, and meant it.