see|Termagant.
English
wikipedia
Etymology
From Termagant.
Pronunciation
IPA|/'t�:m�g�nt/
Noun
en-noun
#A quarrelsome, scolding woman
#* 1907, Isaac Flagg, Plato: the Apology and Crito, p. 196.:
#*: The name of Xanthippe, the wife of Socrates, has become proverbial for a termagant.
#* 1970, Robertson Davies, Fifth Business:
#*: Easier divorce, equal pay for equal work as between men and women, no discrimination between the sexes in employment � these were her causes, and in promoting them she was no comic-strip feminist termagant, but reasonable, logical, and untiring.
Synonyms
shrew
virago
Adjective
en-adj
#scolding or shrewish
#*1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford:
#*: These bishops with their termagant wives throw the book at us and say believe because I demand belief and by God I will burn or hang and quarter you if you do not.
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