exigeanteEtymologyFrom French exigeante, feminine form.adjOf a woman: demanding.“One has had a bad supper, an exigeante dowager that he was obliged to escort having prevented his enjoying anything […]”nounA demanding woman.“Now mammas are sometimes exigeantes; and on a winter's evening I am loath to leave my comfortable fireside because Tommy has over-eaten himself and has the stomach-ache, or because that angel, Miss Lucy, has fallen down […]”