Definitions for viragoes

viragoes vi·ra·go

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

Viragoes is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 360 anagrams from letters in viragoes (aegiorsv).

Definitions for viragoes

noun

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

Origin of viragoes

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

Examples for viragoes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The virago smiled and twiddled the knife between her fingers.

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

Word Value for viragoes
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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