Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - shrew
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Shrew
shrew
I. noun Etymology: Middle English ~e evil or scolding person, from Old English screawa ~ (animal) Date: before 12th century 1. any of a family (Soricidae) of small chiefly nocturnal insectivores related to the moles and distinguished by a long pointed snout, very small eyes, and short velvety fur 2. an ill-tempered scolding woman • ~like adjective II. transitive verb Date: 14th century obsolete curse
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n. 1 any small usu. insect-eating mouselike mammal of the family Soricidae, with a long pointed snout. 2 a bad-tempered or scolding woman. Derivatives shrewish adj. (in sense 2). shrewishly adv. shrewishness n. Etymology: OE screawa, scr{aelig}wa shrew-mouse: cf. OHG scrawaz dwarf, MHG schrawaz etc. devil ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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землеройка; pl землеройковые (Soricidae) – American short-tailed shrew – armored shrew – Asiatic shrew – Asiatic water shrew – brown-toothed water shrew – Ceylon shrew – checkered-backed elephant shrew – common shrew – desert shrew – dwarf shrew – elephant shrew – Eurasian water shrew – forest elephant shrew – giant African water shrew – giant Mexican shrew – girder-backed shrew – gray shrew – least shrew – lesser shrew – little shrew – long-clawed shrew – long-eared elephant shrew – long-tailed shrew – mole shrew – mountain shrew – musk shrew – musk white-toothed shrew – Old World water shrew – oriental shrew – oriental water shrew – piebald shrew – pigmy shrew – red-toothed shrew – rock elephant shrew – sand shrew – short-eared elephant shrew – short-tailed shrew – small African water shrew – small-eared shrew – thick-tailed shrew – Tibetan water shrew – tree shrew – water shrew – web-footed water shrew – white-toothed shrew ...Англо-русский Русско-английский биологический словарь
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1. сварливая женщина, мегера "The Taming of the S." (Shakespeare) —- "Укрощение строптивой" 2. зоол. землеройка (Sorex) ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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mole amer. крот SHREW noun 1) zool. землеройка 2) сварливая женщина Syn: harridan, termagant, virago, vixen ...Англо-русский словарь
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(shrews) A shrew is a small brown animal like a mouse with a long pointed nose. N-COUNT ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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~ n 1 a very small animal like a mouse with a long pointed nose 2 old use an unpleasant woman who always argues and disagrees with people ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- "small mammal," O.E. screawa "shrew-mouse," unknown outside English. The meaning "peevish, malignant, clamorous, spiteful, vexatious, turbulent woman" [Johnson] is c.1303, from earlier sense of "spiteful person" (male or female), 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. Alternate O.E. word for it was scirfemus, from sceorfan "to gnaw." Shrewish "scolding" is from 1565, originally "wicked, evil" (1375). ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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