a woman who is very strict or who tries to tell people what to do, in an unpleasant way 苛刻的女人;专横的女人 Word OriginMiddle English (originally referring to an imaginary deity of violent and turbulent character who often appeared in morality plays): via Old French from Italian Trivagante, taken to be from Latin tri- ‘three’ + vagant- ‘wandering’, and to refer to the moon “wandering” between heaven, earth, and hell under the three names Selene, Artemis, and Persephone.