The AI-powered English dictionary
plural viragos or viragoes
A woman given to undue belligerence or ill manner at the slightest provocation. quotations examples
Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head.
1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, page 361
Joan was all Arden, grinning there, siding with her virago mother.
1964, Anthony Burgess, chapter III, in Nothing Like the Sun
A woman who is scolding, domineering, or highly opinionated. examples
A woman who is rough, loud, and aggressive. examples