shrewish woman, quarrelsome woman
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Xanthippe Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
Socrate's scolding wife
An ill tempered woman. (Also Socrates' wife)
Xanthippe Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Xanthippe (pronounced ; , 5th century–4th century BCE) was an ancient Athenian, the wife of Socrates and mother of their three sons: Lamprocles, Sophroniscus, and Menexenus. There are far more stories about her than there are facts. She was likely much younger than Socrates, perhaps by as much as forty years.
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