My wife is shrewish when I keep not hours. --Shak. [1913 Webster] -- {Shrew"ish*ly}, adv. -- {Shrew"ish*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
shrewishness — shrewish ► ADJECTIVE ▪ (of a woman) bad tempered or nagging. DERIVATIVES shrewishly adverb shrewishness noun … English terms dictionary
shrewishness — noun see shrewish … New Collegiate Dictionary
shrewishness — See shrewishly. * * * … Universalium
shrewishness — noun The quality of being shrewish … Wiktionary
shrewishness — n. quality of being quarrelsome, quality of being ill tempered … English contemporary dictionary
shrewishness — shrew·ish·ness … English syllables
shrewishness — noun a nature given to nagging or scolding • Derivationally related forms: ↑shrewish • Hypernyms: ↑ill nature * * * noun ( es) : the quality or state of being shrewish * * * shrewˈish … Useful english dictionary
Anything for a Quiet Life — is a Jacobean stage play, a city comedy written by Thomas Middleton and John Webster. Topical allusions suggest the play was written most likely in 1621.AuthorshipThe play was first published in quarto in 1662 by the bookseller Francis Kirkman,… … Wikipedia
Cursedness — Curs ed*ness, n. 1. The state of being under a curse or of being doomed to execration or to evil. [1913 Webster] 2. Wickedness; sin; cursing. Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 3. Shrewishness. My wife s cursedness. Chaucer. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
shrewish — adjective Date: 1565 ill natured, intractable • shrewishly adverb • shrewishness noun … New Collegiate Dictionary
