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PlotThe film opens with pub landlord and frequent holidaymaker Vic Flange (Sid James) openly flirting with the sassy saucepot widow Sadie Tompkins (Barbara Windsor) as his battleaxe wife, Cora (Joan Sims), looks on with disdain.

The battleaxe is one of several stereotypes.

and such battleaxes made of bronze and jade have been found.

heartless tyrant, Nurse Ratched has become the stereotype of the nurse as a battleaxe.

Chinese battleaxes can be divided.

He fought using a battleaxe as his weapon of choice and was later known as Cadwgan of the Bloody Axe.

of Peggy Mount: Character actress who specialised in playing grotesque harridans and scowling battleaxes", The Daily Telegraph, 14 November 2001 "Peggy.

Hellebarde, deriving from Middle High German halm (handle) and barte (battleaxe) joined to form helmbarte.

Eventually Veta, Marin"s battleaxe wife, arrives and helps her husband by belabouring the kidnappers, while Columbo takes control of the suitcase containing.