Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. A boisterous, brawling, turbulent woman. It seems in Shakespeare to have been used of men. In ancient farces and puppet-shows, termagant was a vociferous, tumultuous deity.
3. The sprites of fiery termagants in flame--
1. An imaginary being supposed by the Christians to be a Mohammedan deity or false god. He is represented in the ancient moralities, farces, and puppet shows as extremely vociferous and tumultous.
Irascibility Roget’s Thesaurus §901
N. irascibility, irascibleness, temper, crossness, susceptibility, procacity, petulance, irritability, tartness, acerbity, protervity, pugnacity, excitability, bad temper, fiery temper, crooked temper, irritable, temper, genus irritabile, hot blood, ill humor, asperity &c, churlishness, huff, a word and a blow, sir fretful plagiary, brabbler, tartar, shrew, vixen, virago, termagant, dragon, scold, xantippe, porcupine, spitfire, fire eater, fury
V. be irascible, have a temper, have a devil in one, fire up
Adj. irascible, bad-tempered, ill-tempered, irritable, susceptible, excitable, thin-skinned, fretful, fidgety, on the fret, hasty, overhasty, quick, warm, hot, testy, touchy, techy, tetchy, like touchwood, like tinder, huffy, pettish, petulant, waspish, snappish, peppery, fiery, passionate, choleric, shrewish, "sudden and quick in quarrel", querulous, captious, moodish, quarrelsome, contentious, disputatious, pugnacious, cantankerous, exceptious, restiff, churlish, cross, cross as crabs, cross as two sticks, cross as a cat, cross as a dog, cross as the tongs, fractious, peevish, acaritre, in a bad temper, sulky, angry, resentful, resentive, vindictive
Int. pish, phr, a vieux comptes nouvelles disputes, quamvis tegatur proditur vultu furor, vino tortus et ira
No Bible verses found for "termagant".