Definitions for shrew

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Spelling: [shroo]
IPA: /ʃru/

Shrew is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 42 anagrams from letters in shrew (ehrsw).

Definitions for shrew

noun

  1. a woman of violent temper and speech; termagant.
  2. any of several small, mouselike insectivores of the genus Sorex and related genera, having a long, sharp snout.

Origin of shrew

1200-50; Middle English; special use of shrew2

Examples for shrew

His wife is a shrew, a termagant, who embitters every hour of his existence.

Why of Shakspeare, in his Taming of the shrew, and elsewhere?

"When things don't suit me, I'm apt to say so; but I never scold," whined the shrew.

Columbine snapped like the shrew she masked: "You little sneak!"

But Mirandy was no shrew; she was simply troubled about many things.

The jade had to come to him, at last, completely subdued, as in the “Taming of the shrew.”

Her popularity is up, her guard is down, and her image as a shrew is a relic of the past.

The ii point is that, if a woman have a sharp nose, then most commenly she is a shrew.

All the parts for women are awful, and chauvinistic and they have to play a shrew.

Read another way, she is a horrible mother, an uptight snob, and a bit of a shrew.

Word Value for shrew
Scrable

11

Words with friends

10

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