this made me a little sad... virago, which means "a loud-voiced, ill-tempered, scolding woman; a shrew" once meant "a woman of strength or spirit, a woman of heroic acts." (definitions taken from Dictionary.com).
The root, or course, is the Latin, "vir", meaning "man".
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that is an excellent word for the title of a short story. for some strange reason, that is the first thought that popped into my head, for i imagined a story about a woman who was strong but perceived as ill-tempered.
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