Read full poem →Yet plays the fool before she dies.
'Tis an ugly, envious shrew,
That rails at dear Lepell and you.
Dictionary Entry
Any of numerous small, mouselike, chiefly nocturnal, mammals of the family Soricidae (order Soricomorpha).
Origin
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Common Phrases
. shrewshrew treeshrew tailedshrew watershrew commonshrew elephantshrew pygmy
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Poetry examples for “shrew”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Woman's Prize; or, The Tamer Tam'd, a comedy, written on the same
foundation with Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew; or which we may
better call a second part or counterpart to that admirable comedy. This
Read full poem →They think me the moral of mother
And judge me a terrible shrew.
Read full poem →196. Matting. The poet should mean the rushes that were strewn
over the medieval floor; see 2 Henry IV. V.v.1, Tuam. of the Shrew,
IV. i. 48, etc.; but matting can scarcely denote them. Sce note on carpet,
Read full poem →Red and steaming in the sun,
Where the shrew-mouse with pale throat
Burrows, and the speckled stoat;