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