n.
- a small mouse-like insectivorous mammal with a long pointed snout and tiny eyes.
[Family Soricidae: many species.]
- a bad-tempered or aggressively assertive woman.
Derivative
- shrewish adj.
- shrewishly adv.
- shrewishness n.
Etymology
OE scrēawa, scræwa, of Gmc origin; cf. shrewd.
