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Termagante — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • termagant noun A brawling, boisterous, and turbulent person or thing.

Senses

Termagante is used for these senses in English:

  • Termagant (archaic, historical) A fictitious deity with a violent temperament who featured in medieval mystery plays, represented as being worshipped by Muslims or (less commonly) other non-Christians.

termagant — full definition

  1. noun A brawling, boisterous, and turbulent person or thing.
  2. noun A censorious, nagging, and quarrelsome woman; a scold, a shrew.

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