Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Harridan \Har"ri*dan\, n. [F. haridelle a worn-out horse, jade.]
   A worn-out strumpet; a vixenish woman; a hag.

         Such a weak, watery, wicked old harridan, substituted
         for the pretty creature I had been used to see. --De
                                                  Quincey.

Source : WordNet®

harridan
     n : a scolding (even vicious) old woman