Definitions For Harpy

noun

  • Large black-and-white crested eagle of tropical America
  • Any of various fruit bats of the genus Nyctimene distinguished by nostrils drawn out into diverging tubes
  • (Greek mythology) vicious winged monster; often depicted as a bird with the head of a woman
  • A malicious woman with a fierce temper
  • An evil creature in Greek mythology that is part woman and part bird
  • An angry and unpleasant woman

Is Harpy a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
13
Words with Friends
12

The word Harpy is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Harpy in a Sentence

  • In fairy tales stepmothers are often portrayed as harpies who make the lives of their stepchildren miserable
  • Having just started to make it really big in the music business, he found himself surrounded by a flock of harpies greedy for a piece of the action

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