Definitions for viragos

viragos vi·ra·go

Spelling: [vi-rah-goh, -rey-]
IPA: /vɪˈrɑ goʊ, -ˈreɪ-/

Viragos is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 190 anagrams from letters in viragos (agiorsv).

Definitions for viragos

noun

  1. a loud-voiced, ill-tempered, scolding woman; shrew.
  2. Archaic. a woman of strength or spirit.

Origin of viragos

before 1000; Middle English, Old English Latin virāgō, equivalent to vir man + -āgō suffix expressing association of some kind, here resemblance

Examples for viragos

"Now you will be able to have a talk with him if you like," said the virago.

"You're a virago," said Chris, seating himself near his wife.

Ah, you coolly come, with that virago on your arm, to make a fool of me before everyone.

The virago smiled and twiddled the knife between her fingers.

I stood upon the defensive between the virago and my sister's chair.

Yet the old man always spoke of Edith as a virago after that.

When he returned he found the virago awaiting him at the door.

He would have crimsoned to the eyes, no doubt, and fled from the virago.

On which the virago says to her victim, "My dear, I thocht it was yersel'!"

I got a dispatch from, him quoting the virago of Paris—meaning the Figaro, of course.

Word Value for viragos
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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