virago
noun
a loud-voiced, ill-tempered, scolding woman; shrew.
viragoes
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pluralof virago.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Hagen can be one of the stage's great ripsnorting viragoes, as she demonstrated last year off-Broadway in the title role of Shaw's Mrs.Warren's Profession.
From Time Magazine Archive
Wodehouse still lives in the same cloud-cuckoo land of titled old blighters, muscular viragoes and fluffy-minded bachelors that he first celebrated 67 books ago.
From Time Magazine Archive
I shouldn't make it one of your hoity-toity vixenish viragoes.
From The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Sir W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert
Behind them came a woman escorted by two coarse, red-faced viragoes.
From The Tremendous Event by Maurice Leblanc
It was only by mob misunderstanding that the suffragettes were conceived as viragoes, just as it was only by mob misunderstanding that the members of the Society of Friends were conceived as desperadoes.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 21 The Recent Days (1910-1914) by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
