English to German Meaning of virago - virago

Virago :

virago

noun

Megäre, Amazonas

Virago :: viragoViragoes :: Mannweiber

← Viper

virgin →

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Definitions of virago in English

Noun(1) a noisy or scolding or domineering woman(2) a large strong and aggressive woman

Examples of virago in English

(1) Worst of all is the disastrous family his daughter is about to marry into, a graceless mob of halfwits headed by a foul-mouthed virago .(2) She sat there and took it like some kind of valkyrie or virago , perhaps the harpies of ancient myth.(3) He lies awake at night, with Laura in the next room, sleeping the sleep of the virago .(4) that virago of a wife of his needs locking up(5) So virility was manliness as opposed to eunuchism, and a virago was a woman acting like a man.(6) There's no one in the whole of London who will disagree with the fact that Her Ladyship is a virago , plain and simple.(7) It was not the glance of a cheerful guardian of the shelves, but instead the leer of a triumphant virago .(8) She is such a virago , so self-centred, and even self-indulgent that she seems to care for nothing except her own career.(9) He rolled his eyes and bent his head close towards hers, looking for the entire world to be whispering sweet nothings into her ears, while actually saying ├ö├ç├┐Would you cooperate, you obstinate virago ?├ö├ç├û(10) He only silently curses the Quartermaster for somehow arranging him to be left with this nagging virago yet again.(11) Before vanishing altogether, the woman warrior becomes a hideous virago in prints and paintings in France and abroad.(12) I mutely watched two petite viragos lob insults at each other over the ethics of having a friend hold one's place in line.

(1) pit viper ::

pit viper

(2) horned viper ::

Hornviper

Synonyms

Noun

1. harridan ::

Vettel

2. shrew ::

Spitzmaus

3. dragon ::

Drachen

4. termagant ::

Megäre

5. vixen ::

Füchsin

6. fishwife ::

fishwife

7. witch ::

Hexe

8. hellcat ::

Furie

9. she-devil ::

sie Teufel

10. tartar ::

Zahnstein

11. martinet ::

Zuchtmeister

12. ogress ::

Unmensch

13. battle-ax ::

Streitaxt

14. scold ::

schelten

Different Forms

virago, viragoes

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