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Synonyms for termagant

Most common

she-devil vixen scold shrew

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Noun

1. Shrew — A censorious, nagging, and quarrelsome woman; a scold, a shrew

shrew, she-devil, vixen, scold, virago, cat, bitch, dragon, witch, fury, jade, hag, hellcat, harpy, fishwife, beldam, jezebel, harridan

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    A censorious, nagging, and quarrelsome woman; a scold, a shrew.

Related words

Word family
termagantish
Other spellings
termigant

Forms

Plural
termagants → shrews, she-devils, vixens, scolds…

Example sentences

  • vixen A vixen lives in our garden with her five puppies.
  • scold I cannot scold Taninna. She's still a little girl.
  • shrew You can gossip as much as you want, dirty shrew!

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
termagantrising
vixenrising
scoldrising
shrewsteady

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters
cat1, hag1
4 letters
fury2, jade1
5 letters
bitch1, witch1, vixen2, shrew, scold1, harpy
6 letters
dragon2, virago3, beldam
7 letters
jezebel, hellcat
8 letters
harridan, fishwife

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (fury2 = 2 syllables).

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