Female curmudgeon = Battleaxe?

[junediamanti]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Tabouli" <tabouli at u...> 
wrote:
> How about "battleaxe"?  I've seen this word used for the 
formidable old woman.  To my mind "battleaxe" implies more dignity 
than "harridan" and "bitch" and the rest.  It has connotations of 
someone who is tough, critical and domineering, perhaps even cruel, 
but who also commands a certain respect.  It could even be said with 
fondness, as in: "Oh, she's a bit of an old battleaxe, but she has a 
good heart." (McGonagall, perhaps, though she's a bit too soft-
centred to really wear the title).
> 
> Tabouli.
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

I once saw a situations vacant ad for "Office Dragon"  and don't 
know why I didn't apply really - I'd have been a cert.

English:  How about Bossy Old Trout?

June