Actually, the press made a big deal about her recent tour of talk shows in which she cackled loudly in response to various questions.
Could always refer to her as a “snaaaaaake!”
Getting back to shrew. Nongenderspecific deinitions aside, if use “shrew” to refer to a male, you’re also implying a bitchy feminine side to the insult of combative, etc. Can you honestly say Cheney is a shrew without giggling even a little bit? Because you’re picturing him in a house dress & apron swinging a rolling pin at W.
That’s just the image I want kicking around in my head all afternoon.
As opposed to this.
Beats this, no?
Sorry. The link brings you to the first page. If you go to the gallery you find a picture of Giuliani in drag. Here is a better shot. I wish I could find the picture of him on SNL where he was the old housewife.
Good grief! Either he’s got one hell of a sense of humor (in which case my vote as well) or he’s completely unhinged.
So long as we’re quoting dictionaries, FTR the general definition of the noun shrew is, in fact, gender specific:
Just sayin’
Funny. She doesn’t look shrewish. That’s OK, though. Some of my best friends are shrewish. (Where’s the smiley with a yarmulke?)
Well, this is logical, given that she is (and has been for some time) the leading candidate.
Even though whoever is second in the polls may, strictly speaking, be vulnerable to dropping to third, nobody is going to mention it.
Feeling, as I do, uniquely qualified to badger you, I’m going to have to say that you’re totally and utterly full of shit here; “shrew” is clearly and historically an epithet levelled exclusively at women. To claim otherwise via an omission on the part of two sources you happen to find is pure sophistry.
[ul][li]As Princeton’s Wordnet has it: “a scolding nagging bad-tempered woman”[/li][li]Random House: “a woman of violent temper and speech; termagant.”[/li][li]American Heritage Dictionary: “A woman with a violent, scolding, or nagging temperament; a scold.”[/li][li]Kernerman: “an old word for an unpleasant woman with a violent temper and sharp tongue”[/ul][/li]If you can find even one significant usage of “shrew” to refer to a man, I’ll buy you a beer. No, make it a white wine spritzer.
Funny, she doesn’t look shrewish.