virago
IPA: vɪrɑgoʊ
noun
- A woman given to undue belligerence or ill manner at the slightest provocation.
- A woman who is scolding, domineering, or highly opinionated.
- A woman who is rough, loud, and aggressive.
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Examples of "virago" in Sentences
- He believed her to be simply a vulgar, interfering, brazen-faced virago.
- Randle Holme says that a sleeve thus tied in at the elbow was called a virago sleeve.
- "Well, did you get it?" one of them, apparently the "virago" herself, asked abruptly.
- As for "virago", it may be male in Shakespeare, but it was female all the way back to Plautus.
- Anne Royall 1769 – 1854 a hero of feminism… but in her day… she was “called a virago and a monomaniac” - now that such things are “normalized” we can celebrate her without a concern.
- Which then said: This is now a bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; and Adam gave her a name like as her lord, and said she should be called virago, which is as much as to say as made of a man, and is a name taken of a man.
- This other Pallas — the word itself can be accented to have a feminine or masculine meaning in our language, but here it is close to the Latin word virago, which means ‘strong virgin’ — had been killed in a sham fight with Athena.
- Calvin uses the word virissa; Dathe, after Le Clerc, the word vira; and though neither of them are strictly classical, yet are they far preferable to the term virago in the Vulgate, which Calvin justly rejects, and which means a woman of masculine character.
- She was, he tells us, as indeed she had been in the preceding feudal centuries, often what we should nowadays call a virago, of violent temperament, with vivid passions, broken in from childhood to all physical exercises, sharing the pleasures and dangers of the knights around her.
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