Next were short-tailed shrews, with reddish teeth and venomous saliva.
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That’s because all chicks are entirely dependent on the parents for food, and food, in this case, is usually a small rodent, like a vole or a shrew, that can’t be easily split.
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What gives tree shrews their drinking superpower, however, remains a mystery.
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Read another way, she is a horrible mother, an uptight snob, and a bit of a shrew.
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All the parts for women are awful, and chauvinistic and they have to play a shrew.
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Her popularity is up, her guard is down, and her image as a shrew is a relic of the past.
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Why not rewrite 'The Taming of the Shrew' with a new background?
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You forced him to die alone with your sneering face, while your shrew of a wife counted cards downstairs.
Richard Carvel, Complete|Winston Churchill
A face with more of the shrew in embryo than that of the girl, it is scarcely possible to conceive.
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Soric′ident, having teeth like the shrew; Sor′icine, pertaining to the shrew-mouse; Sor′icoid, soricine.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements)|Various
The kulu in question was more of a coquette than she was of a shrew.
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British Dictionary definitions for shrew
shrew
/ (ʃruː) /
noun
Also called: shrewmouseany small mouse-like long-snouted mammal, such as Sorex araneus (common shrew), of the family Soricidae: order Insectivora (insectivores)See also water shrew Related adjective: soricine
a bad-tempered or mean-spirited woman
Word Origin for shrew
Old English scrēawa; related to Old High German scrawaz dwarf, Icelandic skröggr old man, Norwegian skrugg dwarf