Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
| Kieli | Käännökset |
|---|---|
| esperanto | megero |
| japani | 鬼婆 (onibaba / oni-baba) |
| ranska | mégère |
| unkari | sárkány |
| venäjä | мегера (megera), грубая (grubaja) |
Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- (archaic) A brawling, boisterous, and turbulent person or thing.
- (specifically, derogatory) A censorious, nagging, and quarrelsome woman; a scold, a shrew.
Adjektiivi
- (archaic) Having the temperament of a termagant (noun ); bad-tempered, brawling, boisterous, turbulent.
- (specifically, derogatory) Of a woman, her behaviour, etc.: censorious, nagging, and quarrelsome; scolding, shrewish.
Esimerkit
- [...] Make feeble ladies, in their works, / To fight like termagants and Turks; [...]
- The name of Xanthippe, the wife of Socrates, has become proverbial for a termagant.
- 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 termagant, but reasonable, logical, and untiring.
- This terrible termagant, this Nero, this Pharaoh.
- The slave of an imperious and reckless termagant.
- These bishops with their termagant 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.
Taivutusmuodot
| Monikko | termagants |
| Komparatiivi | more termagant |
| Superlatiivi | most termagant |