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Harps vs Harpy - What's the difference?

harps | harpy |

As nouns the difference between harps and harpy

is that harps is plural of lang=en while harpy is a fabulous winged monster, ravenous and filthy, having the face of a woman and the body of a vulture.

harps

English

Noun

(head)

    • Anagrams

    * sharp

    harpy

    English

    (wikipedia harpy)

    Noun

    (harpies)
  • A fabulous winged monster, ravenous and filthy, having the face of a woman and the body of a vulture.
  • * Milton
    • Both table and provisions vanished quite,
    With sound of harpies' wings and talons heard.
  • A shrewish woman.
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1927 , year_published=2008 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=Edgar Rice Burrows , title=The Outlaw of Torn , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=But her most subtle wiles proved ineffectual in ridding her, even for a moment, of her harpy jailer }}
  • One who is rapacious or ravenous; an extortioner.
  • * Goldsmith
    • The harpies about all pocket the pool.
  • The European moor buzzard or marsh harrier (Circus aeruginosus ).
  • A large and powerful double-crested, short-winged American eagle (Thrasaetus harpyia ).

    • Derived terms

    * harpy bat * harpy fly

    See also

    * harridan