hell bride

English

Noun

hell bride (plural hell brides)

  1. (literary) A female monster or demon; a hag, ogress, harpy or the like.
    • 1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 42:
               Grendel's mother,
      monstrous hell-bride, brooded on her wrongs.
    • 2007 November, L33T, page 75, column 1:
      While we moviegoers are nothing but grateful to Gaiman and Avery for their part in bringing us Ms. Jolie as the serpentine and mostly-naked hell-bride, there are scores of scholars out there who're peeved[.]
    • 2024, Lindy Ryan, Mother Knows Best: Tales of Homemade Horror‎[1], Black Spot Books:
      I knew then, I'd left too late
      to flee the curse, the harrowing
      rumours of a hag, a hell-bride,
      instead of a warrior queen[.]
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