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In the Middle Ages, Termagant or Tervagant was the name of a god that some European Christians believed Muslims worshipped. [1] [2] It originates in the eleventh-century Song of Roland. The word is also used in modern English to mean a violent, overbearing, turbulent, brawling, quarrelsome woman; a virago, shrew, or vixen. [1]
Modern use of the word virago generally takes the disparaging sense. Thus virago joined pejoratives such as termagant, [2] mannish, amazonian and shrew to describe women who acted aggressively or like men. The word virago has almost always had an association with cultural gender transgression.
[8] [better source needed] In William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, Katherina "has a scolding, shrewish tongue," thus prompting Petruchio to try to tame her. [9] More modern, figurative labels include battle-axe and dragon lady; [10] more literary alternatives (all deriving from mythological names) are termagant, harpy, and fury. [10] [11]
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Webster's dictionary page defines 'Virago' as (in this order). 1: a loud overbearing woman : termagant 2: a woman of great stature, strength, and courage — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.7.56.10 16:46, 11 November 2014 (UTC) Yes.
The northern short-tailed shrew (Blarina brevicauda) is the largest shrew in the genus Blarina, [3] and occurs in the northeastern region of North America. [4] It is a semifossorial, highly active, and voracious insectivore and is present in a variety of habitats like broadleaved and pine forests among shrubs and hedges as well as grassy river banks. [5]
To take photos of the Mount Lyell shrew, three students laid out over 100 traps last November in the Eastern Sierra Nevada region and checked them every two hours. Elusive, palm-sized shrew caught ...
HMS Termagant was a T-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that saw service during the Second World War. She was built by William Denny and Brothers , of Dumbarton and launched on 22 March 1943. She was scrapped in 1965.