Termagant

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A quarrelsome, scolding woman; a shrew.
  • adj. Shrewish; scolding.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A quarrelsome, scolding woman, especially one who is old and shrewd.
  • adj. Quarrelsome and scolding or censorious; shrewish.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. An imaginary being supposed by the Christians to be a Moslem deity or false god. He is represented in the ancient moralities, farces, and puppet shows as extremely vociferous and tumultous.
  • n. A boisterous, brawling, turbulent person; -- formerly applied to both sexes, now only to women.
  • adj. Tumultuous; turbulent; boisterous; furious; quarrelsome; scolding.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. [capitalized] An imaginary deity, supposed to have been worshiped by the Mohammedans, and introduced into the moralities and other shows, in which he figured as a most violent and turbulent personage.
  • n. A turbulent, brawling person, male or female.
  • n. A boisterous, brawling, or turbulent woman; a shrew; a virago; a scold.
  • Violent; turbulent; boisterous; quarrelsome; scolding; of women, shrewish.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a scolding nagging bad-tempered woman
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    yenta    virago   
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