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Shrew
is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
Example Sentences
- And then you have to be careful not to come off as the shrew or the heavy.
- The gardens would not be all that this shrew notices.
- The pygmy white-toothed shrew can be seen here, if you can find it.
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| shrew (ʃruː) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | See also water shrew Also called: shrewmouse any small mouse-like long-snouted mammal, such as Sorex araneus (common shrew), of the family Soricidae: order Insectivora (insectivores)Related: soricine |
| 2. | a bad-tempered or mean-spirited woman |
| Related: soricine | |
| [Old English scrēawa; related to Old High German scrawaz dwarf, Icelandic skröggr old man, Norwegian skrugg dwarf] | |
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Word Origin & History
shrew
"small mammal," O.E. screawa "shrew-mouse," unknown outside English, perhaps from P.Gmc. *skreu- "to cut" (see shred). Alternative O.E. word for it was scirfemus, from sceorfan "to gnaw." The meaning "peevish, malignant, clamorous, spiteful, vexatious, turbulent woman" [Johnson]
EXPANDis late 14c., from earlier sense of "spiteful person" (male or female), mid-13c., traditionally said to derive from some supposed malignant influence of the animal, which was once believed to have a venomous bite and was held in superstitious dread. Shrewish "scolding" is from 1560s, originally "wicked, evil" (late 14c.).
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