Usually means: Nagging, ill-tempered, scolding woman.
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  1. shrewish: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. shrewish: Merriam-Webster
  3. shrewish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. shrewish: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. shrewish: Collins English Dictionary
  6. shrewish: Vocabulary.com
  7. shrewish: Wordnik
  8. shrewish: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. shrewish: Wiktionary
  10. shrewish: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. shrewish: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. shrewish: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. shrewish: Dictionary.com
  14. Shrewish: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. shrewish: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. shrewish: Rhymezone
  17. Shrewish: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. shrewish: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. shrewish: FreeDictionary.org
  20. shrewish: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. shrewish: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. shrewish: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shrewish: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shrewish: Medical dictionary

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adjective:  Of or pertaining to a shrew (a nagging, ill-tempered woman).
adjective:  Bad-tempered; ill-natured; obstinate, as a shrew.

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