shrew
Snub-nosed tiny mammal
A shrew is a tiny, sharp-nosed mammal resembling a mouse but belonging to a different order.
Shrews are aggressive and voracious despite their size.
The word also means a bad-tempered, nagging woman—an old-fashioned insult now mostly encountered in Shakespeare's *The Taming of the Shrew*: His ex-wife was a shrew who made his life miserable.
Organism eating bugs primarily
- moleSubterranean insectivore
- hedgehogSpiny nocturnal mammal
- voleShort-tailed field rodent
- snoutBeast's protruding face
whiskers · burrowing · nocturnal · venomous · fur · territorial · predatory · earthworms
Pester repeatedly
- harridanIll-tempered older woman
- viragoIll-tempered, domineering woman
- termagantHarsh, quarrelsome woman
- fishwifeLoud, scolding woman
battle-ax · vixen · harpy · fury · beldam · hellcat · quarrelsome · sharp-tongued
Aggressively spirited
- spiritedFull of vim
- fieryIntensely hot or passionate
- sharp-tonguedGiven to cutting remarks
- quick-temperedProne to sudden anger
combative · pugnacious · scrappy · aggressive · belligerent · quarrelsome · contentious · ill-tempered
Extremely small in size
- minusculeExtremely small in size
- diminutiveVery small, or nickname form
- pygmyExtremely small being
- minuteSixtieth of an hour
petite · wee · elfin · pint-sized · lightweight · compact
insectivore
Organism eating bugs primarily
snout · whiskers · burrowing · nocturnal · venomous · fur · territorial · predatory · earthworms · forest floor
nag
Pester repeatedly
- harridanIll-tempered older woman
- viragoIll-tempered, domineering woman
- termagantHarsh, quarrelsome woman
fishwife · battle-ax · vixen · harpy · fury · beldam · hellcat · quarrelsome · sharp-tongued · nagging
feisty
Aggressively spirited
- spiritedFull of vim
- fieryIntensely hot or passionate
- sharp-tonguedGiven to cutting remarks
quick-tempered · combative · pugnacious · scrappy · aggressive · belligerent · quarrelsome · contentious · ill-tempered · cantankerous
tiny
Extremely small in size
- minusculeExtremely small in size
- diminutiveVery small, or nickname form
- pygmyExtremely small being
minute · petite · wee · elfin · pint-sized · lightweight · compact
Petruchio
Bianca · comedy · Elizabethan · wooing · submission · spirited · willful · courtship · marriage · dowry
- Eurasian wildlifeSiberian tiger, giant panda, red panda, snow leopard, Asian elephant
- insectivoresanteaters, ant-eaters, hedgehog, echidnas, hedgehogs
- old insultsknave, varlet, scoundrel, rogue, blackguard
- mammalsbears, bats, sheep, cats, anteater
- forest lifesquirrel, fox, rabbit, owl, woodpecker
- sh wordsshe, shake, shape, share, shark
shrewangel
Divine winged messenger
sweetheart · saint · darling · gentle soul · lamb
- Taming of the ShrewElizabethan battle-of-sexes comedy
- elephant shrewSmall long-snouted African mammal
- Taming of ShrewControlling a difficult spouse
- tree shrewSmall primate-adjacent mammal
- water shrewSemiaquatic insectivorous rodent-like mammal