| 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. |