Termagant
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Because of the theatrical tradition, by Shakespeare's day the term had come to refer to a bullying person. Henry IV contains a reference to "that hot termagant Scot". In Hamlet the hero says of ham actors that "I would have such a fellow whipped for o'er-doing Termagant, it out-Herod's Herod". Herod, like Termagant, was also a character from medieval drama who was famous for ranting. Mainly because of Termagant's depiction in long gowns, given that female roles were routinely played by male actors in Shakespearean times, English audiences got the mistaken notion that the character was female, or at least that he resembled a mannish woman. As a result, the name termagant came increasingly applied to a woman with a quarrelsome, scolding
Dictio-definitions :
1. Violently abusive and quarrelsome.
2. A quarrelsome, scolding woman; a shrew.
3. A person, traditionally a woman, who persistently nags or criticizes.
4. With that thought, however, came a mental picture of Naratu, the black termagant, who ruled him with an iron hand.
5. A boisterous, brawling, turbulent person; -- formerly applied to both sexes, now only to women.
6. A mythical deity popularly believed in the Middle Ages to be worshiped by the Muslims and introduced into the morality play as a violent, overbearing personage in long robes.
7. An imaginary deity supposed by medieval Christians to be worshiped by Muslims and represented in morality plays as a boisterous, overbearing figure
a boisterous, quarrelsome, scolding woman; shrew
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Usage :
1. Family legend recounts that Sister Garrison once quite literally broke up her husband's drinking party by smashing the offending bottles, and this is sometimes taken to mean that Abijah Garrison was driven to desert his family by his termagant of a wife.
2. With that thought, however, came a mental picture of Naratu, the black termagant, who ruled him with an iron hand.
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Synonyms :
disorderly, furious, harridan, hellcat, quarrelsome, raucous, scolding, shrew, tumultuous, turbulent, virago, vixen, Xanthippe.
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Hindi :
कलहिनी,
झगड़ालू
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