From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Termagant \Ter"ma*gant\, adjective Tumultuous; turbulent; boisterous; furious; quarrelsome; scolding. -- {Ter"ma*gant*ly}, adverb
A termagant, imperious, prodigal, profligate wench. --Arbuthnot.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Termagant \Ter"ma*gant\, noun [OE. Trivigant, Termagant, Termagant (in sense 1), OF. Tervagan; cf. It. Trivigante.]
1. An imaginary being supposed by the Christians to be a Mohammedan deity or false god. He is represented in the ancient moralities, farces, and puppet shows as extremely vociferous and tumultous. [Obs.] --Chaucer. ''And oftentimes by Termagant and Mahound [Mahomet] swore.'' --Spenser.
The lesser part on Christ believed well, On Termagant the more, and on Mahound. --Fairfax.
2. A boisterous, brawling, turbulent person; -- formerly applied to both sexes, now only to women.
This terrible termagant, this Nero, this Pharaoh. --Bale (1543).
The slave of an imperious and reckless termagant. --Macaulay.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: a scolding nagging bad-tempered woman [syn: {shrew}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
80 Moby Thesaurus words for "termagant": Jezebel, Mafioso, Xanthippe, Young Turk, amazon, battle-ax, beast, beldam, berserk, berserker, bitch, bitch-kitty, boisterous, bomber, brute, cat, common scold, demon, devil, disorderly, dragon, fiend, fire-eater, firebrand, fishwife, fury, goon, gorilla, grimalkin, gunsel, hag, hardnose, harpy, hell-raiser, hellcat, hellhag, hellhound, hellion, holy terror, hood, hoodlum, hothead, hotspur, incendiary, killer, limitable, mad dog, madcap, monster, mugger, ogress, rapist, raucous, revolutionary, rowdy, rowdyish, rumbustious, savage, scold, she-devil, she-wolf, shrew, siren, spitfire, terror, terrorist, tiger, tigress, tough, tough guy, tumultuous, ugly customer, unruly, violent, virago, vixen, wild beast, wildcat, witch, wolf
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