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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'Termagant' Resulted in 2 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 2 Definitions Termagant proper noun  (archaic) an imaginary deity with a violent temperament who featured in mediaevel mystery plays, represented as being worshipped by Muslims Etymology: From Old French Tervagant, from Italian Trivagante, interpreted as being from Latin tri- + vagari "wander".      Full Definition of Termagant termagant noun  A quarrelsome, scolding woman 1907, Isaac Flagg, Plato: the Apology and Crito, p. 196.: : The name of Xanthippe, the wife of Socrates, has become proverbial for a . 1970, Robertson Davies, Fifth Business: : Easier divorce, equal pay for equal work as between men and women, no discrimination between the sexes in employment " these were her causes, and in promoting them she was no comic-strip feminist , but reasonable, logical, and untiring. adjective  scolding or shrewish 1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford: : These bishops with their wives throw the book at us and say believe because I demand belief and by God I will burn or hang and quarter you if you do not. Etymology: From Termagant.      Full Definition of termagant  Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish     Show 51015202550 results per page. Enter your search terms Submit search form   Web www.allwords.com Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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