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Shrewishness |
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Shrewishness See also Irascibility. Shyness (See TIMIDITY.) Similarity (See TWINS.) Sinfulness (See WICKEDNESS.) Caudle, Mrs. Margaret nagging, complaining wife. [Br. Lit.: The Curtain Lectures, Walsh Modem, 90] even King Arthur feared his uxorial virago. [Br. Lit: Tom Thumb the Great] makes hell too hot even for the devil, who sends her back home. [Am. Balladry: “The Devil and the Farmer’s Wife”] Ethan Frome’s hypochondriacal, nag ging, belittling wife. [Am. Lit.: Ethan Frome] 19th-century version: nags Pygmalion. [Aust. Operetta: von Suppé, Beautiful Galatea, Westerman, 285] vixenish wife; keeps husband in thrall. [Br. Lit.: Great Expectations] “intolerably curst and shrewd and froward.” [Br. Lit.: The Taming of the Shrew]
Jurgen’s petulant wife taken from him in gratitude by the Prince of Darkness. [Am. Lit.: Jurgen in Magill I, 464] widow; miserable to everyone. [Br. Lit.: Dombey and Son] personification of censoriousness, constantly carping, grumbling, and finding fault. [Gk. Myth.: EB (1963) XV, 685] continually harassed co-wife Hannah about her barrenness. [O. T.: I Samuel 1:6] aggressive, domineering wife of Bishop Proudie. [Br. Lit.: Trollope Barchester Towers in Magill I, 55] Norina, disguised for mock marriage, pretends to be virago. [Ital. Opera: Donizetti, Don Pasquale, Westerman, 123–124] Mr. Bramble’s virago sister; bent on matrimony. [Br. Lit.: Humphry Clinker] tumultuous Muslim deity (male); today, a virago. [Medieval Lit.: Espy, 125] Socrates’ peevish, quarrelsome wife. [Gk. Hist.: Espy, 114] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The weather had broken, and the sharp wind was almost autumnal in its shrewishness. |
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