result #126719 - WHAT DOES THE ENGLISH WORD "VIRAGO" MEAN?

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quiz : culture : WHAT DOES THE ENGLISH WORD "VIRAGO" MEAN?

[+] ballot by justanother
ACTIVE May 14,2008 - Thu May 14, 09

ANSWER : Virago is a term for a man-like woman, that can mean both a super woman of great strength and courage OR a fishwife

A woman regarded as loud, scolding, ill-tempered, quarrelsome, or overbearing.	7
A quickly turning motorcycle.	3
A woman of extraordinary stature, strength, and courage.	1
A specific type of dizziness, and a major symptom of a balance disorder.	1
A small and superficially mouse-like mammal in the family Soricidae.	0

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COMMENTS:
Voted : A quickly turning motorcycle.
80's yamaha motorcycle. Yeah, it was one of my first MAG_rofl

by LCD on Wed May 14, 08 3:51pm [+]

Voted : A woman regarded as loud, scolding, ill-tempered, quarrelsome, or overbearing.
Like a harridan or harpy.

by skylab on Wed May 14, 08 4:10pm [+]

by LCD on Wed May 14, 08 4:12pm [+]

Voted : A woman regarded as loud, scolding, ill-tempered, quarrelsome, or overbearing.
It takes a brave or profoundly stupid man to attempt to tame the virago- cant remember where the quotes from tho sorry.

by quirk99 on Wed May 14, 08 6:39pm [+]

Voted : A woman regarded as loud, scolding, ill-tempered, quarrelsome, or overbearing.
But, of course, if a man acts like this, we have no insulting, dehumanizing, gender-specific word for it. The man is treated generically; HIS privacy is left uninvaded.

by forgetmenot on Wed May 14, 08 11:28pm [+]

^ Not if i have any say in it he doesn't

by quirk99 on Fri Jun 06, 08 10:40pm [+]

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