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Xan·thippe (zan tip′ē)

5th cent. ; wife of Socrates: the prototype of the quarrelsome, nagging wife

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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