shrew
noun/ʃruː/
Frequency rank: #16,494 most common English word
Meaning
a woman who is bad-tempered, scolding, and quarrelsome.
Example sentence
My neighbor is known as quite shrew -- sharp-tongued and always ready to argue with everyone on the street.
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