Английский Этимологический словарь - shrew
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Shrew
shrew
- "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).
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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
2.
(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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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 ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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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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