All shrew synonyms

noun shrew

• gorgon — Classical Mythology. any of three sister monsters commonly represented as having snakes for hair, wings, brazen claws, and eyes that turned anyone looking into them to stone. Medusa, the only mortal Gorgon, was beheaded by Perseus.
• battleax — If you call a middle-aged or older woman a battleax, you mean she is very difficult and unpleasant because of her fierce and determined attitude.
• battleaxe — Alternative spelling of battle-ax.
• ogress — a roundel sable.
• beldame — an old woman, especially an ugly one; hag.
• nag — to annoy by persistent faultfinding, complaints, or demands.
• hag — bog; quagmire.
• bitch — If someone calls a woman a bitch, they are saying in a very rude way that they think she behaves in a very unpleasant way.
• hellcat — a bad-tempered, spiteful, woman; shrew.
• madcap — wildly or heedlessly impulsive; reckless; rash: a madcap scheme.
• harpy — Classical Mythology. a ravenous, filthy monster having a woman's head and a bird's body.
• harridan — a scolding, vicious woman; hag; shrew.
• battle-ax — a heavy ax with a wide blade, formerly used as a weapon of war
• medusa — a saucer-shaped or dome-shaped, free-swimming jellyfish or hydra.
• amazon — In Greek mythology, the Amazons were a tribe of women who were very good at fighting.
• amazons — a river in N South America, flowing E from the Peruvian Andes through N Brazil to the Atlantic Ocean: the largest river in the world in volume of water carried. 3900 miles (6280 km) long.
• fishwife — a woman who sells fish.