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Significados de shrew em inglês

português
megera
catalão
escurçó
espanhol
bruja

A scolding nagging bad-tempered woman.

megera
português
musaranho
catalão
mussaranya

Small mouselike mammal with a long snout; related to moles.

musaranho

A vicious and scolding woman, especially an older one.

Uso de shrew em inglês
1
Let them take that shrew of a wife, too! Baron Poll bellowed.
Brotherhood of the Wolf
2
A sharp nose has been considered the visible mark of a shrew.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 13,...
3
I've got some more crickets for the Etruscan shrew, the Beefeater called.
The tower, the zoo and the tortoise
4
You remember I did my master's thesis on rock shrew cell differentiation?
Anvil Gate
5
His wife, Kate, is called a shrew on account of her ill-temper.
Elson Grammar School Literature, book 4
6
Dangerous, unscrupulous and cruel, I thought; a man-woman, a shrew, a termagant!
The Trail of '98: A Northland Romance
7
She has thrown me into a perfect sweat, the cursed old shrew!
Dead Souls
8
Each shrew-like animal along our forward walk is now followed by her daughter.
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
9
She is the fiercest shrew in England, as she is the greatest beauty.
His Grace of Osmonde / Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Lif...
10
Is a noseless shrew going to tell us what to think?
The eye of the leopard
11
Tree shrew PDAC possesses the main histological and molecular features of human PDAC.
Pubmed
12
Two hours without a meal and a shrew is in a bad way.
The Irish Times
13
It's much easier to focus on an elephant rather than a pygmy shrew.
The Guardian
14
A shrew mouse, Sorex tenuis; supposed to be peculiar to Timor.
The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1 / The Land of the Orang-utan and...
15
The hideous glance which the old shrew had given me pursued me everywhere.
Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories
16
Inside of ten minutes, I'd transformed the woman from suspicious shrew to co-conspirator.
Roast mortem
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Shrew ao longo do tempo
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