wicked; malicious.-originally, a brawling, turbulent, vexatious person of either sex, but now restricted in use to females; a brawler; a scold.-any small insectivore of the genus sorex and several allied genera of the family sorecidae. in form and color they resemble mice, but they have a longer and more pointed nose. some of them are the smallest of all mammals.-to beshrew; to curse.