termagant

About 0.05 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A brawling, boisterous, and turbulent person or thing.
2. noun A censorious, nagging, and quarrelsome woman; a scold, a shrew.
3. adjective Having the temperament of a termagant (noun sense 1); bad-tempered, brawling, boisterous, turbulent.
4. adjective Of a woman, her behaviour, etc.: censorious, nagging, and quarrelsome; scolding, shrewish.

Similar words

shrew hags termigant scold harridan catamaran tauntress madam virago old bag

Often followed by

wife of and who to was in or is

Word family

Termagant Termagants termagants