termagant
IPA: tˈɝmʌgʌnt
noun
- A quarrelsome, scolding woman, especially one who is old and shrewish.
- (obsolete) A boisterous, brawling, turbulent person, whether male or female.
- (archaic) A fictitious deity with a violent temperament who featured in medieval mystery plays, represented as being worshiped by Muslims
adjective
- Quarrelsome and scolding or censorious; shrewish.
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Examples of "termagant" in Sentences
- My family call her a termagant.
- Who has the nickname of termagant
- Termagants are not popular among males.
- Termagant is an archipelago in the East Verago.
- The newspaper tells her that she is a termagant.
- My mother calls me a termagant when I was young.
- She is known as a termagant little hag of a woman.
- I was tempted to turn termagant myself and fling some punches.
- Don't know why, but in my codex, every mention is spelled termagant.
- The Australian politician Kim Beazley labelled a male opponent a termagant.
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