termagant

noun

1. a violent, turbulent, or brawling woman.
2. (initial capital letter) a mythical deity popularly believed in the Middle Ages to be worshiped by the Muslims and introduced into the morality play as a violent, overbearing personage in long robes.

adjective

3. violent; turbulent; brawling; shrewish.

noun

1. 1. a shrewish woman; scold
   2. (as modifier)a termagant woman

n.c.1500, “violent, overbearing person” (especially of women), from Teruagant, Teruagaunt (c.1200), name of a fictitious Muslim deity appearing in medieval morality plays, from Old French Tervagant, a proper name in “Chanson de Roland” (c.1100), of uncertain origin.