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Definition of Shrew
1. Noun. A scolding nagging bad-tempered woman.
Generic synonyms: Disagreeable Woman, Unpleasant Woman
Specialized synonyms: Virago, Yenta
2. Noun. Small mouselike mammal with a long snout; related to moles.
Generic synonyms: Insectivore
Group relationships: Family Soricidae, Soricidae
Specialized synonyms: Common Shrew, Sorex Araneus, Masked Shrew, Sorex Cinereus, Blarina Brevicauda, Short-tailed Shrew, Water Shrew, Cryptotis Parva, Least Shrew
Definition of Shrew
1. a. Wicked; malicious.
2. n. Originally, a brawling, turbulent, vexatious person of either sex, but now restricted in use to females; a brawler; a scold.
3. v. t. To beshrew; to curse.
Definition of Shrew
1. Noun. Any of numerous small mouselike, chiefly nocturnal, mammals of the family ''Soricidae''. ¹
2. Noun. An ill-tempered, nagging woman: a scold. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Shrew
1. to curse [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: curse
Medical Definition of Shrew
1.
1. Originally, a brawling, turbulent, vexatious person of either sex, but now restricted in use to females; a brawler; a scold. "A man . . . Grudgeth that shrews [i. E, bad men] have prosperity, or else that good men have adversity." (Chaucer) "A man had got a shrew to his wife, and there could be no quiet in the house for her." (L'Estrange)
2. [AS. Screawa; so called because supposed to be venomous.