Word of the Day: TRUB-TAIL

ETYMOLOGY
from trub (a little, squat woman)

EXAMPLE
“… 1st Peasant. Husband, did’st hear he called me woman! called Me whore! Me! me, thy wife!
2nd Peasant: Keep quiet, shrew! I’ll teach thee, trub-tail, what this meddling means! …”

From: The Trinity: A Nineteenth Century Passion-Play
By Karl Pearson, 1882

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