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termagant::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | shrew |
| Type of | disagreeable woman, unpleasant woman |
| Has types | virago, yenta |
Examples of termagant
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Her eldest son, Alec, returns home with his termagant wife when their house collapses.
From the guardian.co.uk
Better to be alone than the husband of some termagant, being dragged around the supermarket.
From the guardian.co.uk
In her declining years, Moore had become a querulous termagant.
From the time.com
Unless I heed Anthony's warning, it will hit me any minute now and turn me into a termagant like Rachel.
From the guardian.co.uk
Does that make me an unfeminine termagant?
From the telegraph.co.uk
Boesman is a vicious brute who smashes at his own fate by punching Lena, a nagging termagant who could drive a much stronger man to despair.
From the time.com
Having created Margaret as a termagant, screenwriter Pete Chiarelli and director Anne Fletcher put her through a film-length rehab of tough love.
From the time.com
Paolo Gavanelli's brutish Pasquale is roughly sung, and has engendered no sympathy by the time his apparently docile wife turns termagant.
From the guardian.co.uk
Martha Mann's good-looking period costumes completed Mr. Major's cleverly devised portrait of a termagant who, in the end, the audience can love as much as the composer obviously did.
From the online.wsj.com
- Shrew: a scolding nagging bad-tempered woman
- In Medieval Europe, Termagant was the name given to a god that the Europeans believed Muslims worshipped.
- A quarrelsome, scolding woman, especially one who is old and shrewd; Quarrelsome and scolding or censorious; shrewish
- A brawling, turbulent woman (see virago)
- An overeating or nagging woman
- A shrewish, bullying woman.
