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 and divides as batt-le--axe under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

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.