shrew

shrew is a 5-letter English word with 6 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Wicked; malicious. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 10 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Wicked; malicious.
2. adjective. Originally, a brawling, turbulent, vexatious person of either sex, but now restricted in use to females; a brawler; a scold.
3. adjective. Any small insectivore of the genus Sorex and several allied genera of the family Sorecidae. In form and color they resemble mice, but they have a longer and more pointed nose. Some of them are the smallest of all mammals.
4. adjective. To beshrew; to curse.
5. noun. small mouselike mammal with a long snout; related to moles

   Synonyms: shrewmouse

6. noun. a scolding nagging bad-tempered woman

   Synonyms: termagant

Synonyms

shrewmouse, termagant

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in shrew:

wersh

Common word forms

shrews, shrewed, shrewly, shrewing

Words from these letters

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