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- noun Plural form of
termagant .
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Examples
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For his part, Déprez found her enthusiasm attractive, and he really did not fancy yet another circuit among the…termagants.
The Blackstone Key Rose Melikan 2008
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For his part, Déprez found her enthusiasm attractive, and he really did not fancy yet another circuit among the…termagants.
The Blackstone Key Rose Melikan 2008
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For his part, Déprez found her enthusiasm attractive, and he really did not fancy yet another circuit among the…termagants.
The Blackstone Key Rose Melikan 2008
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It was a hard and a tricky fight, and Goll won it by bravery and strategy and great good luck; for with one shrewd slice of his blade he carved two of these mighty termagants into equal halves, so that there were noses and whiskers to his right hand and knees and toes to his left: and that stroke was known afterwards as one of the three great sword-strokes of Ireland.
Irish Fairy Tales James Stephens 1916
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Like termagants the winds tore down and whirled it with the snow.
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"Also she is said to be possessed of a temper," I continued, "and is above the average height, I believe, and I have a natural antipathy to termagants, more especially tall ones."
The Broad Highway Jeffery Farnol 1915
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Shimmering and saucy and debonair as a polo pony, she had seemed a departure from type, something above the meretricious termagants round whom he so often had to weave his accusatory webs of evidence.
Never-Fail Blake Arthur Stringer 1912
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They were two regular termagants, upon which even thrashing made no impression.
Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 01 Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911
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They were two regular termagants, upon which even thrashing made no impression.
Pelle the Conqueror — Complete Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911
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No one will ever know how many men joined the army in 1914 and 1915 to escape from tyrants and taskmasters, termagants and shrews, none of whom are any the less irksome when they happen by ill-luck to be also our fathers, our mothers, our wives and our children.
O'Flaherty V.C. : a recruiting pamphlet George Bernard Shaw 1903
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