viragon.

Brit.

/vᵻˈrɑːɡəʊ/,

/vᵻˈreɪɡəʊ/, U.S.

/vəˈrɑɡoʊ/,

/vəˈreɪɡoʊ/

Forms: Also 1500s virragoo, 1600s verago, vyrago, firago.

Etymology: < Latin virāgo a man-like or heroic woman, a female warrior, etc., < vir man. Hence also Old French, French virago, Spanish virago.

†1. Woman. (Only as the name given by Adam to Eve, after the Vulgate rendering of Genesis ii. 23.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > woman > [noun]

wifeeOE

womaneOE

womanOE

queanOE

brideOE

viragoc1000

to wifeOE

burdc1225

ladyc1225

carlinec1375

stotc1386

marec1387

pigsneyc1390

fellowa1393

piecec1400

femalea1425

goddessa1450

fairc1450

womankindc1450

fellowessa1500

femininea1513

tega1529

sister?1532

minikinc1540

wyec1540

placket1547

pig's eye1553

hen?1555

ware1558

pussy?a1560

jade1560

feme1566

gentlewoman1567

mort1567

pinnacea1568

jug1569

rowen1575

tarleather1575

mumps1576

skirt1578

piga1586

rib?1590

puppy1592

smock1592

maness1594

sloy1596

Madonna1602

moll1604

periwinkle1604

Partlet1607

rib of man1609

womanship?1609

modicum1611

Gypsy1612

petticoata1616

runniona1616

birda1627

lucky1629

she-man1640

her1646

lost rib1647

uptails1671

cow1696

tittup1696

cummer17..

wife1702

she-woman1703

person1704

molly1706

fusby1707

goody1708

riding hood1718

birdie1720

faggot1722

piece of goods1727

woman body1771

she-male1776

biddy1785

bitch1785

covess1789

gin1790

pintail1792

buer1807

femme1814

bibi1816

Judy1819

a bit (also bundle) of muslin1823

wifie1823

craft1829

shickster?1834

heifer1835

mot1837

tit1837

Sitt1838

strap1842

hay-bag1851

bint1855

popsy1855

tart1864

woman's woman1868

to deliver the goods1870

chapess1871

Dona1874

girl1878

ladykind1878

mivvy1881

dudess1883

dudette1883

dudine1883

tid1888

totty1890

tootsy1895

floozy1899

dame1902

jane1906

Tom1906

frail1908

bit of stuff1909

quim1909

babe1911

broad1914

muff1914

manhole1916

number1919

rossie1922

bit1923

man's woman1928

scupper1935

split1935

rye mort1936

totsy1938

leg1939

skinny1941

Richard1950

potato1957

scow1960

wimmin1975

womyn1975

womxn1991

c1000 Ælfric Homilies I. 14 Beo hire nama Uirago, þæt is, fæmne, forðan ðe heo is of hire were genumen.

a1300 Cursor Mundi 633 Virago gaf he hir to nam; þar for hight sco virago, for maked o þe man was sco.

a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Gen. ii. 23 And Adam seide..This schal be clepid virago, for she is takun of man.

1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 37 b/1 And Adam gaf here a name lyke as her lord and said, she shal be called Virago, whiche is as moche to saye as made of a man and is a name taken of a man.

?a1500 Chester Pl. i. 150 Shee shalbe called, I wisse, Viragoo, nothing amisse, For out of man tacken shee is.

1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe i. f. lxxxxiiii First whan a woman was made of god she was named Virago because she dyd come of a man.

1576 G. Gascoigne tr. Pope Innocent III 1st Bk. Vewe Worldly Vanities in Droomme of Doomes Day i. sig. A.iij Before Eua sinned, she was called Virago, and after she sinned she deserued to be called Eua.

a. A man-like, vigorous, and heroic woman; a female warrior; an amazon. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > warrior > [noun] > female warrior

viragoa1387

Zamazima1400

warriorc1400

viragin1558

Amazon1578

barratress1582

warrioress1594

Amazonian1595

Amazonite1601

viragon1641

bellatrice1656

shield-maiden1849

shieldmay1849

shield-maid1851

fighteress1864

the world > people > person > woman > [noun] > man-like woman

viragoa1387

master womana1535

viragin1558

hermaphrodite1594

masculine-feminine1620

viragon1641

Amazon1758

she-man1848

gynander1888

masculinist1928

masculist1930

society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > [noun] > one who fights

fighterc1300

viragoa1387

barratora1400

combatant1489

combater1598

viragoa1616

scuffler1633

blue hen's chicken (also chick)c1800

scrapper1874

fightist1877

the mind > emotion > courage > heroism > [noun] > brave warrior

thanec893

berne937

helethOE

wightlingc1330

felona1400

viragoa1513

thunderer1586

paladin1592

Fian1787

beau sabreur1834

war hero1898

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1876) VI. 413 The strong virage [L. virago potentissima] Elfleda..halp moche her broþer þe kyng in ȝevynge of counsaile.

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. lxxx. f. cv Elfleda..this noble venqueresse Uirago and made whose vertue can I nat expresse.

1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xii. viii. 56 The mynd..Of Juturna, the verray virago; Quhilk term to expone, be myne avis, Is a woman exersand a mannis office.

1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Fj^v One of his wiues..decketh her selfe moste gorgiously..& procedeth like a Virago stoutly & cherefully to the fire, where the corps of her husbande was burnte.

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 14 No swarms or trouping horsmen can apale the virago.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 383 This Sultan presented him with the head of that Virago Periaconcona vpon the top of a Launce.

a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 361 Shee so ruled as Queene eight yeers and better: a man-like virago of a stout and noble spirit.

1677 W. Hubbard Narr. Troubles with Indians New-Eng. ii. 20 That young Virago kept the dore fast against them.

1717 A. Pope Rape of Lock (new ed.) v, in Wks. 160 To arms, to arms! the fierce Virago cries, And swift as lightning to the combate flies.

1781 W. Cowper Let. 5 Mar. (1979) I. 455 And as to the Neutralities, I really think the Russian virago an impertinent Puss for meddling with us.

1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus iii. xi. 104/1 Did not the same virago boast that she had a Cavalry Regiment, whereof neither horse nor man could be injured.

1885 19th Cent. May 472 She [Vittoria Colonna] was a virago, a name which, however misapprehended now, bore a different and worthy signification in her day.

†b. Applied to a man. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > [noun] > one who fights

fighterc1300

viragoa1387

barratora1400

combatant1489

combater1598

viragoa1616

scuffler1633

blue hen's chicken (also chick)c1800

scrapper1874

fightist1877

a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iii. iv. 267 Why man hee[']s a verie diuell, I haue not seen such a firago... They say, he has bin Fencer to the Sophy.

a1640 J. Day & H. Chettle Blind-beggar (1659) sig. G3 Come then my mad Viragoes..now I'll turn swaggerer my self.

3. A bold, impudent (†or wicked) woman; a termagant, a scold.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > evil person > [noun] > female

viragoc1386

meschyne1490

hellcat1612

hell hag1615

feloness1845

the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [noun] > impudent person > girl or woman

viragoc1386

slut?c1425

ramp?c1450

limmerc1485

rannell1573

minx?1576

Mistress Minx1576

rampant1641

hussy1647

tittup1696

skelpie-limmer1786

madam1787

society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > [noun] > wicked person > woman

viragoc1386

meschyne1490

Jezebel1558

demoness1856

the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill-naturedness > ill nature in woman or shrewishness > [noun] > shrew

scoldc1175

shrewc1386

viragoc1386

scolder1423

common scold1467

wild cat1570

vixen1575

callet1577

termagant1578

(Long) Meg of Westminster1589

butter whore1592

cotquean1593

scrattop1593

scoldsterc1600

butter-quean1613

Xantippea1616

fury1620

Tartar1669

fish-woman1698

cross-patch1699

Whitechapel fortune1734

brimstone1751

randy1762

fish-fag1786

rantipole1790

skellata1810

skimmington1813

targer1822

skellat-bell1827

catamaran1834

nagster1873

yenta1923

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [noun] > person > woman

termagant1578

virago1719

c1386 G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale 359 O Sowdanesse, roote of Iniquitee, Virago, thou Semyrame the secounde [etc.].

1680 C. Ness Compl. Church-hist. 178 God sets this black brand upon this virago Jezabel.

1719 J. Swift Quiet Life in Wks. (1735) II. 350 He saw virago Nell belabor, With Dick's own Staff, his peaceful Neighbour.

1770 E. Burke Corr. (1844) I. 230 No heroine in Billingsgate can go beyond the patriotic scolding of our republican virago.

1838 J. Grant Sketches London 175 It now devolved on her to act the part of a wife who played both the tyrant and virago at home.

1866 A. Trollope Belton Estate III. v. 138 I believe Lady Aylmer to be an overbearing virago, whom it is good to put down.

1891 C. Roberts Adrift in Amer. 90 Three women—a mother and two daughters. These were the greatest viragoes I ever saw.

in extended use.1712 J. Warder True Amazons 24 But the Numbers are not great of these forward Viragos [= young bees].1773 G. White Let. 26 Mar. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 150 Every hen is in her turn the virago of the yard.

Compounds

attributive, chiefly appositive, as virago family, virago girl, virago heroine, etc.; also virago-strain.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > woman > [adjective] > man-like woman

mannisha1425

manlyc1511

mankind1566

Amazonical1582

Amazonian1595

virago1598

manlike1605

masculine1611

viraginian1642

viraginous1667

Amazonic1782

strong-minded1843

andromorphous1865

the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > evil person > [adjective] > female

virago1598

viragoish1887

the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill-naturedness > ill nature in woman or shrewishness > [adjective]

shrew1297

shrewda1387

scoldinga1533

shrewish?1566

cotquean-like1581

virago1598

vixena1660

termagant1668

vixenlya1677

calleting1691

rudas1802

termagantish1823

vixenish1828

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Brifalda, a..mankinde, virago woman.

1621 J. Taylor Superbiæ Flagellum C vi Like shamelesse double sex'd Hermaphrodites, Virago Roaring Girles.

1639 G. Daniel Vervicensis 161 But the Virago Queen..doth aggravate Th' aggreived Lords.

1746 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Satires i. i. 131 But a bold wench, of right virago strain, Cleft with an axe the wretched wight in twain.

1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World I. 270 Petticoated philosophers, blustering heroines, or virago queens.

a1843 R. Southey Common-place Bk. (1849) 470/1 Edward III's queen, Philippa, was of a virago family.

1862 D. T. Ansted & R. G. Latham Channel Islands iii. xv. 360 Montfort was taken prisoner; his countess, one of the virago heroines of the time, was besieged in Hennebon.

1891 F. W. Farrar Darkness & Dawn I. i. 12 If she had not made Galba and his virago-mother feel the weight of her vengeance, it was only because they were too insignificant.

Derivatives

viˈragoish adj. somewhat resembling, or characteristic of, a virago.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > evil person > [adjective] > female

virago1598

viragoish1887

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [adjective] > of a woman

viraginian1642

viraginous1667

termagant1668

termagantish1823

viragoish1887

the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill-naturedness > ill nature in woman or shrewishness > [adjective] > characteristic of

vixen1700

vixenish1838

viragoish1887

1887 E. Berdoe St. Bernard's 288 The over-dressed, robust, viragoish lady patient.

1888 Lady D. Hardy Dangerous Exper. I. iii. 59 Mrs. Brown's rather viragoish, coarse-featured face.

viˈrago-like adj.

ΚΠ

1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida Induct. sig. A4 An Amazon should have such a voice, virago-like.

1615 R. Brathwait Strappado 92 He doth renew his battery, and stands too't, And she Vyrago-like, yeelds not a foote.

viˈragoship n. the character of a virago.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > evil person > [noun] > female > character of

viragoship1666

society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > [noun] > wicked person > woman > character of

viragoship1666

1666 W. Killigrew Seege of Urbin i. ii. 5 in 4 New Playes How shall we answer at the Resurrection? for our Vira-goships [sic]? for our own, and others blood, thus shed!

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	virago
释义	viragon. Brit. /vᵻˈrɑːɡəʊ/, /vᵻˈreɪɡəʊ/, U.S. /vəˈrɑɡoʊ/, /vəˈreɪɡoʊ/ Forms: Also 1500s virragoo, 1600s verago, vyrago, firago. Etymology: < Latin virāgo a man-like or heroic woman, a female warrior, etc., < vir man. Hence also Old French, French virago, Spanish virago. †1. Woman. (Only as the name given by Adam to Eve, after the Vulgate rendering of Genesis ii. 23.) ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > woman > [noun] wifeeOE womaneOE womanOE queanOE brideOE viragoc1000 to wifeOE burdc1225 ladyc1225 carlinec1375 stotc1386 marec1387 pigsneyc1390 fellowa1393 piecec1400 femalea1425 goddessa1450 fairc1450 womankindc1450 fellowessa1500 femininea1513 tega1529 sister?1532 minikinc1540 wyec1540 placket1547 pig's eye1553 hen?1555 ware1558 pussy?a1560 jade1560 feme1566 gentlewoman1567 mort1567 pinnacea1568 jug1569 rowen1575 tarleather1575 mumps1576 skirt1578 piga1586 rib?1590 puppy1592 smock1592 maness1594 sloy1596 Madonna1602 moll1604 periwinkle1604 Partlet1607 rib of man1609 womanship?1609 modicum1611 Gypsy1612 petticoata1616 runniona1616 birda1627 lucky1629 she-man1640 her1646 lost rib1647 uptails1671 cow1696 tittup1696 cummer17.. wife1702 she-woman1703 person1704 molly1706 fusby1707 goody1708 riding hood1718 birdie1720 faggot1722 piece of goods1727 woman body1771 she-male1776 biddy1785 bitch1785 covess1789 gin1790 pintail1792 buer1807 femme1814 bibi1816 Judy1819 a bit (also bundle) of muslin1823 wifie1823 craft1829 shickster?1834 heifer1835 mot1837 tit1837 Sitt1838 strap1842 hay-bag1851 bint1855 popsy1855 tart1864 woman's woman1868 to deliver the goods1870 chapess1871 Dona1874 girl1878 ladykind1878 mivvy1881 dudess1883 dudette1883 dudine1883 tid1888 totty1890 tootsy1895 floozy1899 dame1902 jane1906 Tom1906 frail1908 bit of stuff1909 quim1909 babe1911 broad1914 muff1914 manhole1916 number1919 rossie1922 bit1923 man's woman1928 scupper1935 split1935 rye mort1936 totsy1938 leg1939 skinny1941 Richard1950 potato1957 scow1960 wimmin1975 womyn1975 womxn1991 c1000 Ælfric Homilies I. 14 Beo hire nama Uirago, þæt is, fæmne, forðan ðe heo is of hire were genumen. a1300 Cursor Mundi 633 Virago gaf he hir to nam; þar for hight sco virago, for maked o þe man was sco. a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Gen. ii. 23 And Adam seide..This schal be clepid virago, for she is takun of man. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 37 b/1 And Adam gaf here a name lyke as her lord and said, she shal be called Virago, whiche is as moche to saye as made of a man and is a name taken of a man. ?a1500 Chester Pl. i. 150 Shee shalbe called, I wisse, Viragoo, nothing amisse, For out of man tacken shee is. 1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe i. f. lxxxxiiii First whan a woman was made of god she was named Virago because she dyd come of a man. 1576 G. Gascoigne tr. Pope Innocent III 1st Bk. Vewe Worldly Vanities in Droomme of Doomes Day i. sig. A.iij Before Eua sinned, she was called Virago, and after she sinned she deserued to be called Eua. 2. a. A man-like, vigorous, and heroic woman; a female warrior; an amazon. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > [noun] > female warrior viragoa1387 Zamazima1400 warriorc1400 viragin1558 Amazon1578 barratress1582 warrioress1594 Amazonian1595 Amazonite1601 viragon1641 bellatrice1656 shield-maiden1849 shieldmay1849 shield-maid1851 fighteress1864 the world > people > person > woman > [noun] > man-like woman viragoa1387 master womana1535 viragin1558 hermaphrodite1594 masculine-feminine1620 viragon1641 Amazon1758 she-man1848 gynander1888 masculinist1928 masculist1930 society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > [noun] > one who fights fighterc1300 viragoa1387 barratora1400 combatant1489 combater1598 viragoa1616 scuffler1633 blue hen's chicken (also chick)c1800 scrapper1874 fightist1877 the mind > emotion > courage > heroism > [noun] > brave warrior thanec893 berne937 helethOE wightlingc1330 felona1400 viragoa1513 thunderer1586 paladin1592 Fian1787 beau sabreur1834 war hero1898 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1876) VI. 413 The strong virage [L. virago potentissima] Elfleda..halp moche her broþer þe kyng in ȝevynge of counsaile. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. lxxx. f. cv Elfleda..this noble venqueresse Uirago and made whose vertue can I nat expresse. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xii. viii. 56 The mynd..Of Juturna, the verray virago; Quhilk term to expone, be myne avis, Is a woman exersand a mannis office. 1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Fj^v One of his wiues..decketh her selfe moste gorgiously..& procedeth like a Virago stoutly & cherefully to the fire, where the corps of her husbande was burnte. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 14 No swarms or trouping horsmen can apale the virago. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 383 This Sultan presented him with the head of that Virago Periaconcona vpon the top of a Launce. a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 361 Shee so ruled as Queene eight yeers and better: a man-like virago of a stout and noble spirit. 1677 W. Hubbard Narr. Troubles with Indians New-Eng. ii. 20 That young Virago kept the dore fast against them. 1717 A. Pope Rape of Lock (new ed.) v, in Wks. 160 To arms, to arms! the fierce Virago cries, And swift as lightning to the combate flies. 1781 W. Cowper Let. 5 Mar. (1979) I. 455 And as to the Neutralities, I really think the Russian virago an impertinent Puss for meddling with us. 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus iii. xi. 104/1 Did not the same virago boast that she had a Cavalry Regiment, whereof neither horse nor man could be injured. 1885 19th Cent. May 472 She [Vittoria Colonna] was a virago, a name which, however misapprehended now, bore a different and worthy signification in her day. †b. Applied to a man. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > [noun] > one who fights fighterc1300 viragoa1387 barratora1400 combatant1489 combater1598 viragoa1616 scuffler1633 blue hen's chicken (also chick)c1800 scrapper1874 fightist1877 a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iii. iv. 267 Why man hee[']s a verie diuell, I haue not seen such a firago... They say, he has bin Fencer to the Sophy. View more context for this quotation a1640 J. Day & H. Chettle Blind-beggar (1659) sig. G3 Come then my mad Viragoes..now I'll turn swaggerer my self. 3. A bold, impudent (†or wicked) woman; a termagant, a scold. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > evil person > [noun] > female viragoc1386 meschyne1490 hellcat1612 hell hag1615 feloness1845 the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [noun] > impudent person > girl or woman viragoc1386 slut?c1425 ramp?c1450 limmerc1485 rannell1573 minx?1576 Mistress Minx1576 rampant1641 hussy1647 tittup1696 skelpie-limmer1786 madam1787 society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > [noun] > wicked person > woman viragoc1386 meschyne1490 Jezebel1558 demoness1856 the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill-naturedness > ill nature in woman or shrewishness > [noun] > shrew scoldc1175 shrewc1386 viragoc1386 scolder1423 common scold1467 wild cat1570 vixen1575 callet1577 termagant1578 (Long) Meg of Westminster1589 butter whore1592 cotquean1593 scrattop1593 scoldsterc1600 butter-quean1613 Xantippea1616 fury1620 Tartar1669 fish-woman1698 cross-patch1699 Whitechapel fortune1734 brimstone1751 randy1762 fish-fag1786 rantipole1790 skellata1810 skimmington1813 targer1822 skellat-bell1827 catamaran1834 nagster1873 yenta1923 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [noun] > person > woman termagant1578 virago1719 c1386 G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale 359 O Sowdanesse, roote of Iniquitee, Virago, thou Semyrame the secounde [etc.]. 1680 C. Ness Compl. Church-hist. 178 God sets this black brand upon this virago Jezabel. 1719 J. Swift Quiet Life in Wks. (1735) II. 350 He saw virago Nell belabor, With Dick's own Staff, his peaceful Neighbour. 1770 E. Burke Corr. (1844) I. 230 No heroine in Billingsgate can go beyond the patriotic scolding of our republican virago. 1838 J. Grant Sketches London 175 It now devolved on her to act the part of a wife who played both the tyrant and virago at home. 1866 A. Trollope Belton Estate III. v. 138 I believe Lady Aylmer to be an overbearing virago, whom it is good to put down. 1891 C. Roberts Adrift in Amer. 90 Three women—a mother and two daughters. These were the greatest viragoes I ever saw. in extended use.1712 J. Warder True Amazons 24 But the Numbers are not great of these forward Viragos [= young bees].1773 G. White Let. 26 Mar. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 150 Every hen is in her turn the virago of the yard. Compounds attributive, chiefly appositive, as virago family, virago girl, virago heroine, etc.; also virago-strain. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > woman > [adjective] > man-like woman mannisha1425 manlyc1511 mankind1566 Amazonical1582 Amazonian1595 virago1598 manlike1605 masculine1611 viraginian1642 viraginous1667 Amazonic1782 strong-minded1843 andromorphous1865 the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > evil person > [adjective] > female virago1598 viragoish1887 the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill-naturedness > ill nature in woman or shrewishness > [adjective] shrew1297 shrewda1387 scoldinga1533 shrewish?1566 cotquean-like1581 virago1598 vixena1660 termagant1668 vixenlya1677 calleting1691 rudas1802 termagantish1823 vixenish1828 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Brifalda, a..mankinde, virago woman. 1621 J. Taylor Superbiæ Flagellum C vi Like shamelesse double sex'd Hermaphrodites, Virago Roaring Girles. 1639 G. Daniel Vervicensis 161 But the Virago Queen..doth aggravate Th' aggreived Lords. 1746 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Satires i. i. 131 But a bold wench, of right virago strain, Cleft with an axe the wretched wight in twain. 1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World I. 270 Petticoated philosophers, blustering heroines, or virago queens. a1843 R. Southey Common-place Bk. (1849) 470/1 Edward III's queen, Philippa, was of a virago family. 1862 D. T. Ansted & R. G. Latham Channel Islands iii. xv. 360 Montfort was taken prisoner; his countess, one of the virago heroines of the time, was besieged in Hennebon. 1891 F. W. Farrar Darkness & Dawn I. i. 12 If she had not made Galba and his virago-mother feel the weight of her vengeance, it was only because they were too insignificant. Derivatives viˈragoish adj. somewhat resembling, or characteristic of, a virago. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > evil person > [adjective] > female virago1598 viragoish1887 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [adjective] > of a woman viraginian1642 viraginous1667 termagant1668 termagantish1823 viragoish1887 the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill-naturedness > ill nature in woman or shrewishness > [adjective] > characteristic of vixen1700 vixenish1838 viragoish1887 1887 E. Berdoe St. Bernard's 288 The over-dressed, robust, viragoish lady patient. 1888 Lady D. Hardy Dangerous Exper. I. iii. 59 Mrs. Brown's rather viragoish, coarse-featured face. viˈrago-like adj. ΚΠ 1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida Induct. sig. A4 An Amazon should have such a voice, virago-like. 1615 R. Brathwait Strappado 92 He doth renew his battery, and stands too't, And she Vyrago-like, yeelds not a foote. viˈragoship n. the character of a virago. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > evil person > [noun] > female > character of viragoship1666 society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > [noun] > wicked person > woman > character of viragoship1666 1666 W. Killigrew Seege of Urbin i. ii. 5 in 4 New Playes How shall we answer at the Resurrection? for our Vira-goships [sic]? for our own, and others blood, thus shed! This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c1000
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