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All virago synonyms

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noun virago

  • gorgon — Classical Mythology. any of three sister monsters commonly represented as having snakes for hair, wings, brazen claws, and eyes that turned anyone looking into them to stone. Medusa, the only mortal Gorgon, was beheaded by Perseus.
  • battleax — If you call a middle-aged or older woman a battleax, you mean she is very difficult and unpleasant because of her fierce and determined attitude.
  • backbiter — to attack the character or reputation of (a person who is not present).
  • battleaxe — Alternative spelling of battle-ax.
  • fire-eater — an entertainer who pretends to eat fire.
  • ogress — a roundel sable.
  • muckraker — to search for and expose real or alleged corruption, scandal, or the like, especially in politics.
  • muckrakers — to search for and expose real or alleged corruption, scandal, or the like, especially in politics.
  • hag — bog; quagmire.
  • hellcat — a bad-tempered, spiteful, woman; shrew.
  • harpy — Classical Mythology. a ravenous, filthy monster having a woman's head and a bird's body.
  • harridan — a scolding, vicious woman; hag; shrew.
  • battle-ax — a heavy ax with a wide blade, formerly used as a weapon of war
  • calumniator — to make false and malicious statements about; slander.
  • amazon — In Greek mythology, the Amazons were a tribe of women who were very good at fighting.
  • medusa — a saucer-shaped or dome-shaped, free-swimming jellyfish or hydra.
  • amazons — a river in N South America, flowing E from the Peruvian Andes through N Brazil to the Atlantic Ocean: the largest river in the world in volume of water carried. 3900 miles (6280 km) long.
  • fishwife — a woman who sells fish.
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