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termagant

noun

  1. an imaginary deity supposed by medieval Christians to be worshiped by Muslims and represented in morality plays as a boisterous, overbearing figure
  2. a boisterous, quarrelsome, scolding woman; shrew

adjective

of the nature of a termagant; quarrelsome; scolding

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