Thesaurus:shrew

Thesaurus

shrew

English

Noun

Sense: an ill-tempered, nagging woman

Synonyms

• battle axe
• bitch
• cat    [⇒ thesaurus]
• crow
• dragon
• faggot (UK & Ireland, 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.