• (British) IPA: /ˈtɜːməɡənt/
• (GA) IPA: /ˈtɚməɡənt/

termagant (plural termagants)

1. A quarrelsome, scolding woman, especially one who is old and shrewish.
   • 1663, Hudibras, by Samuel Butler, part 1, canto 2

     [...] Make feeble ladies, in their works, / To fight like termagants and Turks; [...]

2. (obsolete) A boisterous, brawling, turbulent person, whether male or female.
   • 1543,

     This terrible termagant, this Nero, this Pharaoh.

   • 18, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 15, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify ), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323 ↗:

• (quarrelsome woman) seeSynonyms en

• Russian: грубый/сварливый же́нщина (grúbaja/svarlívaja žénščina)f, меге́ра

termagant

1. Quarrelsome and scolding or censorious; shrewish.

• IPA: /ˈtɜːməɡənt/

1. (archaic) An imaginary deity with a violent temperament who featured in medieval mystery plays, represented as being worshiped by Muslims

   • The lesser part on Christ believed well, / On Termagant the more, and on Mahound.