TERMAGANT meaning: Overbearing, harshly nagging, domineering woman

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termagant: Merriam-Webster.com
Termagant, termagant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
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Termagant, termagant: Wordnik
termagant: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Termagant, termagant: Wiktionary
termagant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
termagant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
termagant: Infoplease Dictionary
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termagant: Online Etymology Dictionary
Termagant (horse), Termagant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Termagant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
termagant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
termagant: Rhymezone
termagant: Grandiloquent Dictionary
Termagant: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
termagant: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
termagant: Free Dictionary
termagant: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
termagant: Mnemonic Dictionary
termagant: Dictionary/thesaurus
Termagant: World Wide Words
Termagant: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  A quarrelsome, scolding woman, especially one who is old and shrewish.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) A boisterous, brawling, turbulent person, whether male or female.
▸ adjective:  Quarrelsome and scolding or censorious; shrewish.
▸ noun:  (archaic) A fictitious deity with a violent temperament who featured in medieval mystery plays, represented as being worshiped by Muslims.

Similar:

shrew, termigant, scold, harridan, catamaran, tauntress, madam, virago, old bag, harpy, more...

Opposite:

docile, submissive, meek, compliant

Adjectives:

old, little, such, tall, hot, imperious, terrible, beautiful, jealous, regular, young

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