A peevish, malignant, clamorous, spiteful, vexatious, turbulent woman. (It appears in Robert of Gloucester, that this word signified anciently any one perverse or obstinate of either sex.)
"Every one of them, who is a shrew in domestik life, is now become a scold in politiks."
-Addison, Freeholder.
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