virago
/vi-rah-goh, -rey-/US // vɪˈrɑ goʊ, -ˈreɪ- //UK // (vɪˈrɑːɡəʊ) //
维拉格,维拉戈,维拉多,维拉格人
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n.名词 noun
- 1
plural vi·ra·goes, vi·ra·gos.
- : a loud-voiced, ill-tempered, scolding woman; shrew.
- : Archaic. a woman of strength or spirit.
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Examples
Miser Farnham put out a lean hand and gripped the virago's wrist so tightly that she screamed with pain.
"Shut up, and mind yore own business," answered the virago, swiftly turning the barrel of her weapon upon me.
But it may have touched him that at that moment he was less than his companion and his virago wife.
Amazon, am′az-on, n. one of a fabled nation of female warriors: a masculine woman: a virago.
If the messenger whom he had seen were really Catherine Seyton, what a masculine virago and termagant must she be!
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