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Termagant vs Nagger - What's the difference?

termagant | nagger |

As nouns the difference between termagant and nagger

is that termagant is a quarrelsome, scolding woman, especially one who is old and shrewish while nagger is one who nags.

As an adjective termagant

is quarrelsome and scolding or censorious; shrewish.

As a proper noun Termagant

is an imaginary deity with a violent temperament who featured in medieval mystery plays, represented as being worshiped by Muslims.

termagant

English

(wikipedia termagant)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A quarrelsome, scolding woman, especially one who is old and shrewish.
  • * 1663 ,
    • [...] Make feeble ladies, in their works, / To fight like termagants and Turks; [...]
  • * 1907 , Isaac Flagg, Plato: the Apology and Crito , p. 196.:
    • The name of Xanthippe, the wife of Socrates, has become proverbial for a termagant .
  • * 1970 , Robertson Davies, Fifth Business :
    • Easier divorce, equal pay for equal work as between men and women, no discrimination between the sexes in employment – these were her causes, and in promoting them she was no comic-strip feminist termagant , but reasonable, logical, and untiring.
  • (obsolete) A boisterous, brawling, turbulent person, whether male or female.
  • * Bale (1543)
    • This terrible termagant , this Nero, this Pharaoh.
  • * Macaulay
    • The slave of an imperious and reckless termagant .

    Synonyms

    * (quarrelsome woman) shrew, virago

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Quarrelsome and scolding or censorious; shrewish.
  • * 1993 , Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford :
    • These bishops with their termagant wives throw the book at us and say believe because I demand belief and by God I will burn or hang and quarter you if you do not.

    nagger

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • one who nags

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