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virago \vuh-RAH-go; vuh-RAY-go\, noun:
1. A woman of extraordinary stature, strength, and courage.
2. A woman regarded as loud, scolding, ill-tempered, quarrelsome, or overbearing.

Virago comes from Latin virago, "a man-like woman, a female warrior, a heroine" from vir, "a man."

http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/archive/2005/10/26.html

В русском я что-то не припомню такого двузначного слова. Да и вообще слов с первым значением, кроме разве что "амазонка". Ну или "коня-на-скаку-остановит".
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