virago
noun
a loud-voiced, ill-tempered, scolding woman; shrew.
viragos
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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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When transgender entered the popular lexicon through the efforts of activists and aid organizations in the mid-1990s, it replaced transsexual, which had replaced transvestite, which was what they called cross-dressers and before that viragos.
From Slate ● May 14, 2018
Even the honest friendship between him and the remarkable woman he calls his "viragos" gives him many a pleasant hour.
From A Woman-Hater by Charles Reade
This hag was a reputed witch and fortune-teller, and acted as president of the young viragos, several of whom, it was afterwards ascertained, belonged to the first families of Rome.
From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2 by Charles Mackay
"If I were you I would see my sister in spite of all the old viragos in Exeter," said Mrs. Trevelyan.
From He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope
The study of these viragos scales down our rating of the master.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters by Elbert Hubbard
