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proper noun 
  1. (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".


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noun 
  1. 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 
  1. 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.


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