virago

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a large, strong, and aggressivly dominating woman

   Despite the group's wishes against it, the virago has been leading the group for three years.

2. 2
   noun

   A woman given to undue belligerence or ill manner at the slightest provocation.

   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.

Borrowed from Latin virāgō (“warlike or heroic woman”, literally “manlike”).

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