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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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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 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!