These bishops with their termagant wives throw the book at us and say believe because I demand belief and by God I will burn or hang and quarter you if you do not.

… Make feeble ladies, in their works, / To fight like termagants and Turks; …

The name of Xanthippe, the wife of Socrates, has become proverbial for a termagant.

Easier divorce, equal pay for equal work as between men and women, no discrimination between the sexes in employment – these were her causes, and in promoting them she was no comic-strip feminist termagant, but reasonable, logical, and untiring.

At first the General tried to impose silence upon the terrible termagant: but he soon discovered that he was powerless

"Mrs Kane has been filling us in on some background information on Owen." The woman nodded, drumming her nicotined fingers. "And I have been assuring her that the boys who arrive here thimbleriggers and termagants are the least of our worries. But we do not send them out that way. Do we, Brother?"

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