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Pos: Noun
[WORDNET DICTIONARY]

Noun virago has 2 senses

1.  virago(n = noun.person) - a noisy or scolding or domineering woman;
is a kind of
shrew, termagant

2.  virago(n = noun.person) amazon - a large strong and aggressive woman;
is a kind of adult female, woman


[CIDE DICTIONARY]

virago, n. [L. virago, -intis, from vir a man. See Virile.].

1.  A woman of extraordinary stature, strength, and courage; a woman who has the robust body and masculine mind of a man; a female warrior. [1913 Webster]
"To arms! to arms! the fierce virago cries." [1913 Webster]

2.  Hence, a mannish woman; a bold, turbulent woman; a termagant; a vixen. [1913 Webster]
"Virago . . . serpent under femininity." [1913 Webster]


[OXFORD DICTIONARY]

virago, n. (pl. -os)
1 a fierce or abusive woman.
2 archaic a woman of masculine strength or spirit.

Etymology:
OE f. L, = female warrior, f. vir man


[ROGET DICTIONARY]

Irascibility

N  irascibility, irascibleness, temper, crossness, susceptibility, procacity, petulance, irritability, tartness, acerbity, protervity, pugnacity, excitability, bad temper, fiery temper, crooked temper, irritable, temper, genus irritabile, hot blood, ill humor, asperity, churlishness, huff, a word and a blow, Sir Fretful Plagiary, brabbler, Tartar, shrew, vixen, virago, termagant, dragon, scold, Xantippe, porcupine, spitfire, fire eater, fury, irascible, bad-tempered, ill-tempered, irritable, susceptible, excitable, thin-skinned, fretful, fidgety, on the fret, hasty, overhasty, quick, warm, hot, testy, touchy, techy, tetchy, like touchwood, like tinder, huffy, pettish, petulant, waspish, snappish, peppery, fiery, passionate, choleric, shrewish, sudden and quick in quarrel, querulous, captious, moodish, quarrelsome, contentious, disputatious, pugnacious, cantankerous, exceptious, restiff, churlish, cross, cross as crabs, cross as two sticks, cross as a cat, cross as a dog, cross as the tongs, fractious, peevish, acari=atre, in a bad temper, sulky, angry, resentful, resentive, vindictive, Int, pish!, a vieux comptes nouvelles disputes, quamvis tegatur proditur vultu furor, vino tortus et ira.