targern.
/ˈtɑːdʒə/, U.S. /ˈtɑrdʒər/, Scottish English /ˈtardʒər/ Scottish.
One who targes; a termagant; a scold.
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the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill-naturedness > ill nature in woman or shrewishness > [noun] > shrew
scoldc1175
shrewc1386
viragoc1386
scolder1423
common scold1467
wild cat1570
vixen1575
callet1577
termagant1578
(Long) Meg of Westminster1589
butter whore1592
cotquean1593
scrattop1593
scoldsterc1600
butter-quean1613
Xantippea1616
fury1620
Tartar1669
fish-woman1698
cross-patch1699
Whitechapel fortune1734
brimstone1751
randy1762
fish-fag1786
rantipole1790
skellata1810
skimmington1813
targer1822
skellat-bell1827
catamaran1834
nagster1873
yenta1923
1822 T. Carlyle Early Lett. (1886) II. 104 Where is the targer?
1886 A. G. Murdoch Sc. Readings 2nd Ser. 59 Happily rid o' his awfu' terjer o' a mither-in-law.
1899 S. R. Crockett Kit Kennedy xxix O, she's a tairger.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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