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shrew

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1. shrew - Noun

2. shrew - Adjective

3. shrew - Verb

Meaning

Wicked; malicious.

Originally, a brawling, turbulent, vexatious person of either sex, but now restricted in use to females; a brawler; a scold.

Any small insectivore of the genus Sorex and several allied genera of the family Sorecidae. In form and color they resemble mice, but they have a longer and more pointed nose. Some of them are the smallest of all mammals.

To beshrew; to curse.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Dubbed "Liz and Dick" by the media, they starred in eleven films together, including The V.I.P.s (1963), The Sandpiper (1965), The Taming of the Shrew (1967) and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Source: Internet

But apparently, the producer-friendly Mukherjee found a way to tame the shrew. Source: Internet

Mythical characters appear regularly in the parades: * Karolin − a small person dressed in a magpie tail and top hat, riding on a shrew. Source: Internet

Kier Elam has traced Shakespeare's Italian idioms in Shrew and some of the dialogue to Florio's Second Fruits, a bilingual introduction to Italian language and culture published in 1591. Source: Internet

Mickey Jordan, with Kaia Hillier in the background, in Experience Theatre Project's adaptation of Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew." Source: Internet

Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew" gets a face-lift in this amusing adaptation set in a Seattle high school, where popular Bianca Stratford (Larisa Oleynik) is forbidden to date until her older sister Katarina (Julia Stiles) finds a beau. Source: Internet

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