Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A witch; a hag; a furious vixen.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A witch; a hag.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a malicious woman with a fierce temper
Examples
“She flips like a light switch - one moment sweet and lovey and the next hell-cat.”
“Priscilla Lawson was perfect as Princess Aura, his hell-cat daughter too.”
“Owing to a singular combination of circumstances, however—the incapacitated state of my arm, an instinctive reluctance to injure a female, and the highly uneven surface of the stone cellar floor, which rendered me somewhat off-balance—I immediately found myself sprawled upon my back, my demoniacal half-sibling kneeling upon my chest and assaulting me with the ferocity of a hell-cat.”
“But right now you'd better forget chess and take a good, long gander at what that Vegian hell-cat is doing.”
Masters Of The Vortex
“So you do know me, you bedroom-eyed Aldebaranian hell-cat," he remarked, evenly.”
Gray Lensman
“He'd like to see that Aldebaranian hell-cat again-just once.”
Galactic Patrol
“She has eyes in the very back of her head, the hell-cat.”
“-- And with that silky hell-cat watching me all the time, -- and looking ten years younger than I do, now that you have got my face and legs all wrong, -- and planning I do not know what --”
“Well, a hell-cat of a society woman sued her husband for divorce and named Miss Corcoran.”
“I thought it was Julie -- that hell-cat!" he muttered.”
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