XANTIPPE

Date "XANTIPPE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Specialty Definition: XANTIPPE

Domain	Definition
Literature	Xantippe or ~~~Xanthippe Xanthippe (3 syl.). Wife of the philosopher Socrates. Her bad temper has rendered her name proverbial for a conjugal scold. "Be she as foul as was Florentius' love, As old as Sibyl, and as curst and shrewd As Socrates' Xanthippe, or a worse, She moves me not." Shakespeare: Taming of the Shrew. i 2. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Slang in 1811	XANTIPPE. The name of Socrates's wife: now used to signify a shrew or scolding wife. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
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Synonyms within Context: XANTIPPE

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Irascibility	Sir Fretful Plagiary; brabbler, Tartar; shrew, vixen, virago, termagant, dragon, scold, Xantippe; porcupine; spitfire; fire eater; (blusterer); fury; (violent person).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: XANTIPPE

Non-English Usage: "XANTIPPE" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Dutch (shrew, vixen, Xanthippe).

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Modern Usage: XANTIPPE

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Xantippe Believe Me (1918)
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: XANTIPPE

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
xantippe	3
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Anagrams: XANTIPPE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-i-n-p-p-t-x"
	-2 letters: nappie, pantie, patine, petnap, pineta.
	-3 letters: axite, entia, expat, inapt, inept, nappe, paint, paten, patin, pieta, pinta, pipet, tenia, tinea, xenia.
	-4 letters: ante, anti, apex, etna, exit, nape, neap, neat, next, nipa, nite, nixe, pain, pane, pant, pate, pean, peat, pein, pent, pian, pina, pine, pint, pipe, pita, tain, tape, taxi, tepa, tine.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-i-n-p-p-t-x"
	+5 letters: expropriating, expropriation.
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