termagant (n.)
- amazon
- battle-ax
- beast
- beldam
- berserk
- berserker
- bitch
- bomber
- brute
- cat
- demon
- devil
- disorderly
- dragon
- fiend
- fire-eater
- firebrand
- fishwife
- fury
- goon
- gorilla
- hag
- harpy
- hellcat
- hellhound
- hellion
- hood
- hoodlum
- hothead
- hotspur
- incendiary
- killer
- madcap
- monster
- mugger
- ogress
- rapist
- revolutionary
- rowdy
- savage
- scold
- she-devil
- shrew
- siren
- spitfire
- terror
- terrorist
- tiger
- tigress
- tough
- virago
- vixen
- wildcat
- witch
- wolf
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, the whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness. Oh, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb-shows and noise. I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it out-herods Herod.