Definitions for Termagant

Termagant ter·ma·gant

Spelling: [tur-muh-guh nt]
IPA: /ˈtɜr mə gənt/

Termagant is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 374 anagrams from letters in Termagant (aaegmnrtt).

Definitions for Termagant

noun

  1. a violent, turbulent, or brawling woman.
  2. (initial capital letter) a mythical deity popularly believed in the Middle Ages to be worshiped by the Muslims and introduced into the morality play as a violent, overbearing personage in long robes.

adjective

  1. violent; turbulent; brawling; shrewish.

Origin of Termagant

1175-1225; Middle English Termagaunt, earlier Tervagaunt, alteration of Old French Tervagan name of the imaginary deity

Examples for Termagant

She may be a fool—she may be a termagant—she may be what you please—but—but she has money.

She seemed to be a sort of termagant, and she said nobody said that about her unless you told them.

There are two claimants on the Milanese, then; the Spanish termagant, and he?

Why, what a bloody-minded, inveterate, termagant strumpet have I been plagued with!

Not to a woman; but I'm sometimes forced to do so to a termagant.

This bride was a canting hypocrite of sixty-three, covetous, and a termagant.

It was as if Elizabeth had put herself into the situation of a termagant wife.

The child must not be suffered to grow up into a termagant—you will admit that, I hope?

And I was the termagant who must have put it there, though I have no memory of doing so.

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

Word Value for Termagant
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Words with friends

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