termagant

1 "I've got the makings of a termagant, my dear boy, but it will be all right if you rule me with a velvet glove," she had remarked within five minutes of their first kiss.

2 Rita may be a bossy termagant, but her adoring Beppe appears to love being whacked around from time to time, so what’s the harm?

3 But in Ms. Smith’s tough, levelheaded performance, Mary is an irascible termagant full of batty notions clutching on to life as best she can.

4 Tigress might have been a termagant , but without her what home could he have?

虎妞虽然厉害，但是没了她怎能成个家呢？

5 That is to say, if the latter designation meant a termagant or scold.

6 “VOTE NOW!” the OED would urge, “to see whether ‘twerk’ will be joining the dictionary, or we never get to say ‘termagant’ again!”

7 For the sake of the lesson, it should be understood that she was thus truly benevolent and kindly, and no vulgar termagant or scold.

8 But the film belongs to Moreno, clearly relishing the chance to play an unapologetic termagant.

9 A termagant wife may, in some respects, be considered a tolerable blessing.

从某些方面来说，有一个泼辣的妻子，也可以看作是一种可以忍受的福气。

10 Tigress might have been a termagant, but without her what home could he have?

虎妞虽然厉害，但是没了她怎能成个家呢？

11 I could stand up and face and argue with a man without flinching; but somehow the rasping savagery of a termagant woman always overcame me.

12 A furious termagant addressed her, telling her that she must dismiss all such courtiers as ruin kings, and that she must love the inhabitants of her good city.

13 She can make a big joke – though the humour of "I hate men" when sung as a termagant roaring is pretty threadbare – but she is not habitually light.

14 She was now an outraged queen and now a fiery little termagant.

15 In contrast, Trump in the White House, judging from both Woodward and the Times op-ed, is the same arrogant, ignorant and cruel termagant who displayed all his ugly impulses daily on television in 2016.

16 “I am certain,” thought Rameses, “that that chattering termagant robs me for her Jews, who vanish in the daytime but are prowling around in the night, like rats in the nastiest corners!”

17 And, just think what it would mean if you married a plain, shapeless lass and she proved to have a temper like a termagant!

18 You can act the part of the termagant to the life, Mistress Georgia.

19 Saul (who only in fishing found peace from his termagant wife).

20 “Little termagant!” he rejoined lovingly, drawing one of the hands which was linked round his arm into his.

1 女神

goddess deity muse

2 暴躁

cross explosive savage fiery touchy peppery hot-tempered short-tempered bad-tempered snappish obstreperous testy grouty iracund pepper temper temperament petulance testiness storminess petulancy termagancy

3 好争吵的

unpeaceable contentious rowdy feisty fire-breathing bellicose quarrelsome stroppy fratchy brawl dissentious

4 暴躁的

cross explosive savage fiery touchy peppery hot-tempered short-tempered bad-tempered snappish obstreperous testy grouty iracund

5 泼妇

rantipole bat bitch fury catamaran scold vixen shrew brimstone Harpy hellcat virago Xanthippe callet shemale battle-ax hell-cat spitfire Xantippe jade fishwife harridan Jezebel beldam cow harpy cotquean xanthippe nagger beldame

6 唠唠叨叨的

nagging

7 好争吵

unpeaceable contentious rowdy feisty fire-breathing bellicose quarrelsome stroppy fratchy carry a chip on shoulder

8 凶悍的

feral

9 悍妇

boondagger catamaran vixen shrew brimstone hellcat man-eater virago callet battle-ax dragon battleaxe diva fury beldam hell-cat bitch tartar xanthippe

10 泼辣的

shrewish vixenish

11 唠唠叨叨

nagging chackle

12 凶悍

feral termagancy

13 唠叨的女人

scold