Crossword-Solution: VIRAGO
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Virago | n. | A woman of extraordinary stature, strength, and courage; a woman who has the robust body and masculine mind of a man; a female warrior. |
| Virago | n. | Hence, a mannish woman; a bold, turbulent woman; a termagant; a vixen. |
We have 31 clues for the answer “VIRAGO”
| Clue | Answers |
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| fictional prototype space ship of the Star Wars extended universe | 1 answer |
| Turn on girl accompanying artist and scold | 1 answer |
| Shrewish sort | 1 answer |
| Overbearing woman | 1 answer |
| Nagging pain, perhaps | 1 answer |
| Domineering woman | 1 answer |
| An untamed shrew | 1 answer |
| Aggressive woman. | 2 answers |
| HEROIC woman | 2 answers |
| malignant woman | 2 answers |
| ANGRY woman | 2 answers |
| Bad-tempered woman | 3 answers |
| Shrewish one | 4 answers |
| Ill-tempered woman | 4 answers |
| Xanthippe | 6 answers |
| malignant person | 7 answers |
| A NAGGING COMPLAINT | 10 answers |
| A VULGAR SHREW | 10 answers |
| a female warrior | 12 answers |
| Termagant | 13 answers |
| Hellion | 14 answers |
| Harridan | 15 answers |
| female fighter | 16 answers |
| MALICIOUS person | 21 answers |
| athlete | 21 answers |
| Shrew | 22 answers |
| Hag | 27 answers |
| Harpy | 28 answers |
| Jezebel | 34 answers |
| VIXEN | 36 answers |
| Scold | 62 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZCEMEA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with VIRAGO (5)
LXXIX With strong Clorinda was Erminia sweet In surest links of dearest friendship bound, With her she used the rising sun to greet, And her, when Phoebus glided under ground, She made the lovely partner of her sheet; In both their hearts one will, one thought was found; Nor aught she hid from that virago bold, Except her love, that tale to none she told.
The abnormal creature seems a mere freak of nature and may chance to be angel, criminal, total insipidity, virago or enchanter, but let such an one enter a room or appear in the street, and heads must turn, eyes light and follow, souls yearn or envy, or sink under the discouragement of comparison.
All he discovered was a strange, fat woman, a sort of virago, who had, apparently, been put in as a caretaker by the man of affairs.
But she too was not altogether without a flaw, so that there was a division in the town between their admirers and visiters; some maintaining, as I was told, that Mrs Beaufort, if she would keep herself sober, was not only a finer woman, but more of a lady, and a better actress, than Miss Scarborough, while others considered her as a vulgar regimental virago.
There was no human creature near her who had mind or heart enough to see the awfulness of her condition, or to strive to teach her to check her passions; and in the midst of these perilous surroundings the little virago grew handsomer and of finer carriage every hour, as if on the rank diet that fed her she throve and flourished.
Quotes with VIRAGO (3)
As a general rule, it is highly desirable that ladies should keep their temper: a woman when she storms always makes herself ugly, and usually ridiculous also. There is nothing so odious to man as a virago. Though Theseus loved an Amazon, he showed his love but roughly, and from the time of Theseus downward, no man ever wished to have his wife remarkable rather for forward prowess than retiring gentleness. A low voice "is an excellent thing in woman.
You need a husband and some babies to look after. Otherwise you're going to grow up into a virago...
The woman who refuses to see her sexual organs as mere wood chips, designed to make the man's life more comfortable, is in danger of becoming a lesbian--an active, phallic woman, an intellectual virago with a fire of her own .... The lesbian body is a particularly pernicious and depraved version of the female body in general; it is susceptible to auto-eroticism, clitoral pleasure and self-actualization.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 21 times in crossword archives (1956–2018).