Xanthippe

Feminine form of XANTHIPPOS. This was the name of the wife of Socrates. Because of her supposedly argumentative nature, the name has been adopted (in the modern era) as a word for a scolding, ill-tempered woman.

classic   formal   upper class   urban   devious   strong   strange   complex   serious   nerdy  

history, Orthodox saints, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt characters, yellow

1. Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, available from https://www.lgpn.ox.ac.uk/publications/.