Termagant

//ˈtɜːməɡ(ə)nt//

Synonyms for "termagant" (104 found)

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Translations

42 translations across 24 languages.

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Arabic

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  • ترماغنت name (fictitious deity with a violent temperament represented as being worshipped by Muslims or other non-Christians)

Belarusian

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  • Тэрвага́н name (fictitious deity with a violent temperament represented as being worshipped by Muslims or other non-Christians)
  • Тэрмага́нт name (fictitious deity with a violent temperament represented as being worshipped by Muslims or other non-Christians)

Catalan

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  • fúria noun (censorious, nagging, and quarrelsome woman — see also shrew)

Czech

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  • saň noun (censorious, nagging, and quarrelsome woman — see also shrew)

Esperanto

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  • megero noun (censorious, nagging, and quarrelsome woman — see also shrew)

Estonian

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  • Termagant name (fictitious deity with a violent temperament represented as being worshipped by Muslims or other non-Christians)

Finnish

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  • äkäpussi noun (brawling, boisterous, and turbulent person or thing)
  • äkäpussi noun (censorious, nagging, and quarrelsome woman — see also shrew)

French

3 entries
  • Tervagan name (fictitious deity with a violent temperament represented as being worshipped by Muslims or other non-Christians)
  • Tervagant name (fictitious deity with a violent temperament represented as being worshipped by Muslims or other non-Christians)
  • mégère noun (censorious, nagging, and quarrelsome woman — see also shrew)

German

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  • Termagant name (fictitious deity with a violent temperament represented as being worshipped by Muslims or other non-Christians)
  • Tervagant name (fictitious deity with a violent temperament represented as being worshipped by Muslims or other non-Christians)

Hungarian

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  • sárkány noun (censorious, nagging, and quarrelsome woman — see also shrew)

Italian

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  • Termagante name (fictitious deity with a violent temperament represented as being worshipped by Muslims or other non-Christians)

Japanese

3 entries
  • ターマガント name (fictitious deity with a violent temperament represented as being worshipped by Muslims or other non-Christians)
  • 鬼婆 noun (censorious, nagging, and quarrelsome woman — see also shrew)
  • 鬼嫁 noun (censorious, nagging, and quarrelsome woman — see also shrew)

Macedonian

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  • караконџула noun (censorious, nagging, and quarrelsome woman — see also shrew)

Marathi

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  • टेर्मागंट name (fictitious deity with a violent temperament represented as being worshipped by Muslims or other non-Christians)

Polish

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  • Termagant name (fictitious deity with a violent temperament represented as being worshipped by Muslims or other non-Christians)
  • harpia noun (censorious, nagging, and quarrelsome woman — see also shrew)
  • jędza noun (brawling, boisterous, and turbulent person or thing)
  • jędza noun (censorious, nagging, and quarrelsome woman — see also shrew)

Russian

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  • Термага́нт name (fictitious deity with a violent temperament represented as being worshipped by Muslims or other non-Christians)
  • Тривига́нт name (fictitious deity with a violent temperament represented as being worshipped by Muslims or other non-Christians)
  • гарпия noun (censorious, nagging, and quarrelsome woman — see also shrew)
  • меге́ра noun (censorious, nagging, and quarrelsome woman — see also shrew)

Scottish Gaelic

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  • ban-sglàmhrainn noun (censorious, nagging, and quarrelsome woman — see also shrew)

Spanish

2 entries
  • Termagante name (fictitious deity with a violent temperament represented as being worshipped by Muslims or other non-Christians)
  • arpía noun (censorious, nagging, and quarrelsome woman — see also shrew)

Swedish

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  • ragata noun (censorious, nagging, and quarrelsome woman — see also shrew)

Thai

1 entries
  • เทอร์มาแกนต์ name (fictitious deity with a violent temperament represented as being worshipped by Muslims or other non-Christians)

Ukrainian

1 entries
  • Термагант name (fictitious deity with a violent temperament represented as being worshipped by Muslims or other non-Christians)

Vietnamese

1 entries
  • bà cô noun (censorious, nagging, and quarrelsome woman — see also shrew)

Welsh

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  • cecren noun (censorious, nagging, and quarrelsome woman — see also shrew)

Yiddish

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  • מויד noun (censorious, nagging, and quarrelsome woman — see also shrew)

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[…] I do not find hovv his E[xcellenc]y can be juſtly cenſured for favouring none but High-Church, High-flyers, Termagants, Laudiſts, Sacheverellians, Tip-top-gallon-men, Jacobites, Tantivyes, Anti-Hannoverians, Friends to Popery and the Pretender, and to Arbitrary Povver, […]

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[T]wo raw lads from a certain great manufacturing town […] were in the act of seeking for the speediest exit from the gardens; rather choosing to resign their share of the dinner, than to abide the farther consequences that might follow from the displeasure of his Highland Termagaunt.

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No person who had a natural interest in the Princess [Anne, Queen of Great Britain] could observe without uneasiness the strange infatuation which made her the slave of an imperious and reckless termagant [Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough].

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Yonder is Sarah Marlborough's palace, just as it stood when that termagant occupied it.

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