Xantippe
or 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.
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