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shrew
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Word definitions for shrew in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shrew \Shrew\, a. [OE. shrewe, schrewe. Cf. Shrewd .] Wicked; malicious. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. a scolding nagging bad-tempered woman [syn: termagant ] small mouselike mammal with a long snout; related to moles [syn: shrewmouse ]
Usage examples of shrew.
You see before you citizen Jacques Faucon, his wife Kitty, a shrew if ever there was one, and her mother Judith, who remains silent and eats us out of house and home, which is why she has more meat on her than either of us.
At last the old shrew tossed a shirt in my face, and an hour later I saw a new servant changing the sheets, after which we had our dinner.
Presidency of the United States of America of Thomas Dewey, a man who not only was not elected but would not even have been alive if Banana Nose Maldonado had not given such specific instructions concerning the Dutchman to Charlie the Bug, Mendy Weiss and Jimmy the Shrew.
A fleeing ring ouzel hurtled across the little clearing on blurring wings, and a sizable shrew, fearing the bear more than the evidence of its nose, rushed in among the men, headed directly for the fire.
Outwardly it has the general soricine form, though much larger than the largest shrew.
But folk of wives make none assay, Till they be wedded, -- olde dotard shrew!
And first I shrew myself, both blood and bones, If thou beguile me oftener than once.
Queen Amballa and her pigmy shrews grouped with the big hedgehogs on one side, while Starwort and his otters mingled with the Gawtrybe squirrels.
Bottom was confined in the Region of Air, and Hurricane Fracto was romancing her, or taming the shrew, as Jim Baldwin put it in his Mundanish way.
The shrews were never still, hopping, jumping, dancing and gabbling on in an unintelligible manner.
The infant pigmy shrews fled, squealing, to hide, wanting the captives to chase them.
As they gathered the little ones up for bed, Martin noticed Amballa and several of the other pigmy shrews watching them carefully lest they became roughpawed or spoke harshly to the babes.
Watched by Amballa and her ever vigilant shrews, the four friends had to carry each Squidjee piggyback fashion down to the sand.
When all the shrews were attending their nets, the Queen turned to Pallum.
Martin bowled the nearest two pigmy shrews over and snatched their fishing net.