| 词汇 | virago |
| 词源 | virago. Virago meant a “man-like or heroic woman, a female warrior” when first attested to in about 1000, deriving from the Latin virago, meaning the same. Such a woman was likely to be bold and strong-willed, which led to the derogatory use of vira- go for “a bold impudent woman, a shrew, a termagant, a scold,” this later use first recorded by Chaucer in 1386. |
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