battle-axe

Questions about battle-axe

What does battle-axe mean?

battle-axe means "a sharp-tongued domineering wife". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in battle-axe?

battle-axe has 3 syllables: batt-le--axe. The stress falls on "batt".

What is another word for battle-axe?

Close synonyms include battle-ax, battle-ax. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is battle-axe a common word?

battle-axe is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.