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1.1
Noun
1.1.1
Sense: an ill-tempered, nagging woman
1.1.1.1
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1.1.1.2
Archetypes
1.1.1.3
Hyponyms
1.1.1.4
Hypernyms
1.1.1.5
Various
1.2
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T
hesaurus
shrew
English
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]
Noun
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Sense: an ill-tempered, nagging woman
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Synonyms
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battle axe
bitch
cat
[
⇒ thesaurus
]
crow
dragon
faggot
(
UK & Ireland
,
obsolete
)
fishwife
harpy
harridan
hellcat
jade
nag
nudnik
scold
she-devil
shrew
termagant
virago
vixen
witch
Archetypes
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Megaera
Xanthippe
Hyponyms
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grimalkin
(
archaic
)
madam
Hypernyms
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complainer
[
⇒ thesaurus
]
jerk
[
⇒ thesaurus
]
woman
[
⇒ thesaurus
]
Various
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banshee
blowsabella
(
obsolete
)
fury
hothead
hotspur
hoyden
spitfire
Further reading
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]
“
901. irascibility
” in
Roget's Thesaurus
, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
“
shrew
” in
Moby Thesaurus II
, Grady Ward, 1996.
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