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As a reference to actual women, rather than the stock character, the shrew is considered old-fashioned, [3] [4] and the synonym scold (as a noun) is archaic. [5] The term shrew is still used to describe the stock character in fiction and folk storytelling. [2] None of these terms are usually applied to males in Modern English. [1]
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The word is also used in modern English to mean a violent, overbearing, turbulent, brawling, quarrelsome woman; a virago, shrew, or vixen. [1] In the past, the word could be applied to any person or thing personified, not just a woman.
Sheng nu: A derogatory Chinese slang term loosely translating to "leftover women", used to describe unmarried older women.(see "Spinster" below) Silver fox: A sexually-attractive or promiscuous older person, typically a woman. (see "cougar" above) Spinster: A woman who, in her own culture, is single beyond the age at which most people get married.
Synonyms are often from the different strata making up a language. For example, in English, Norman French superstratum words and Old English substratum words continue to coexist. [11] Thus, today there exist synonyms like the Norman-derived people, liberty and archer, and the Saxon-derived folk, freedom and bowman.
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The terms womyn and womxn have been criticized for being unnecessary or confusing neologisms, due to the uncommonness of mxn to describe men. [8] [9] [10]The word womyn has been criticized by transgender people [11] [12] due to its usage in trans-exclusionary radical feminist circles which exclude trans women from identifying into the category of "woman", particularly the term womyn-born womyn.