shrewish
adj/ˈʃɹuː.ɪʃ/
Etymology
From shrew + -ish. Compare Middle English schrewis, shrewessh, shrewyssh (“wicked, malignant”).
- inherited from *schrewe✻
Definitions
Of or pertaining to a shrew (a nagging, ill-tempered woman).
- Her part. Good grief, he realized; he hadn’t written any dialogue that included her, the slinky, breast-heavy, nipple-dilated female intelligence agent – he had only done scenes between Ziggy Trots and his shrewish wife.
Bad-tempered
Bad-tempered; ill-natured; obstinate, as a shrew.
The neighborhood
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for shrewish. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA