Толковый словарь английского языка - shrew
Shrew
shrew
I. noun Etymology: Middle English ~e evil or scolding person, from Old English scrēawa ~ (animal) Date: before 12th century 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, an ill-tempered scolding woman, ~like adjective II. transitive verb Date: 14th century 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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