How To Use Termagant In A Sentence
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Chapati Mystery a blog by Sepoy, "a doctoral candidate in History and South Asian Languages and Civilizations department at the University of Chicago" has a great post about the history of the word termagant 'a quarrelsome, scolding woman; a shrew.'
Languagehat.com: TERMAGANT.
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If it had the personality of a jay or a gull I would more readily believe there was a meaningful connection with "termagant".
Languagehat.com: TERMAGANT.
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Rourke was sure he would not want to face the termagant anytime soon.
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The angel that Pierre had married in Madagascar had become a termagant, blinded by jealousy.
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I like to imagine my mother a harried and frantic termagant, slightly crazed and in distinct need of sedation.
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Lord! what a termagant is your pretty cousin, Mr. Mallock!" said my companion when we were out of doors again.
Oddsfish!
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At the dawn of the U.S. civil rights era, black stereotypes - the shiftless coon, termagant Mammy, servile Uncle Tom - remained the order of the day in popular American mass entertainment.
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Solomon looked astonished — “Xantippe, the wife of Socrates,” said he, “is recorded a termagant and a scold, but with her acetosity his philosophy enabled him to bear; but it is apodictical to me, that whoever has the misfortune to marry you will, without amphibology, have more occasion for patience and philosophy than ever Socrates had.”
Lovers and Friends; or, Modern Attachments
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Your highness, sorry about the shrieking termagant!
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I'd never heard "termagant" before, I'll have to look it up :
In Defense of Bitterness
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And the woman was a termagant — at least so I've been told.
A DAY'S LODGING
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The sextet devoted way too much ribaldry to speech impediments and Jesus' termagant mum, and the film-making craft, which I'd remembered as spiffy, now looked slack.
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He rolled his eyes at his mother, who was practically puffing up in indignation for the termagant who had all but threw him out of her home after the argument they had about the engagement.
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A termagant wife may, in some respects, be considered a tolerable blessing.
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The ministrations of Dr. Stickney had not been available, and the two mothers had survived because they had the constitutions of frontierswomen rather than because they had the benefit of the nursing of the termagant who was Jerry Tompkins's wife.
Roosevelt in the Bad Lands
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A termagant wife may, therefore, in some respects, be considered a tolerable blessing.
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From even this stronghold the unlucky Rip was at length routed by his termagant wife.
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Dearest, if I'm one, then you must be a termagant, a misandrist and all its synonyms rolled into one.
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If she be passionate, want of manners makes her a termagant and a scold, which is much at one with Lunatic.
The Education of Women
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Dr. Henry Heginbotham, of Stockport, England, says in speaking of the brank preserved in that town: "There is no evidence of its having been actually used for many years; but there is testimony to the fact that within the last forty years the brank was brought to a termagant market-woman, who was effectually silenced by its threatened application.
The Olden Time Series, Vol. 5: Some Strange and Curious Punishments Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts
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I like to imagine my mother a harried and frantic termagant, slightly crazed and in distinct need of sedation.
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Petermann Etterlin, one of the early sixteenth-century Swiss authors who told the tale of William Tell, also wrote of how regional Governor Winkelried killed one of the termagant dragons: he wrapped thorny branches around a long lance and pushed this into the dragon's open mouth; then he finished off the beast with his sword.
Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 3
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In her temper, too, there is a slight infusion of the termagant; and her satirical humor plays with such an unrespective levity over all subjects alike, that it required a profound knowledge of women to bring such a character within the pale of our sympathy.
Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical
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Do I feel bad that I was done in by a 13-year-old boy and didn't know that "termagant" means me at times ... a quarrelsome woman?
NBC Treats Word Games Like the Olympic Games
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Her eldest son, Alec, returns home with his termagant wife when their house collapses.
Men Should Weep - review
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I am particularly fond of the word "termagant," so if you're an AF reading this post, do feel free to use that word as a descriptor for me.
In Defense of Bitterness
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Take this redhead, for instance, this termagant, this copper-headed Amazon, this female dragon in angel's clothing.
THE LONELY SEA