Meaning Of The Word Xanthippe

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Xanthippe in American English
5th cent. b. c.; wife of Socrates: the prototype of the quarrelsome, nagging wife
noun: a scolding or ill-tempered wife

Xanthippe in British English
noun: the wife of Socrates, proverbial as a scolding and quarrelsome woman

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