tS=Among the newcomers is Maddy's mother Anita, a tequila-chugging <b>virago</b> who headed West with her daughter after leaving her professor-husband at Dartmouth.<br><br>A lot of activist women no longer say outright that they are feminists because the term now conjures images of humorless <b>viragos</b>.&tQ=A <b>virago</b> is:&tC=An intellectual|An obsessive-compulsive|A shrew|A slightly overweight person|A homely woman&cC=3&fB=A <b>virago</b> is a loud-voiced, ill-tempered, scolding woman; a shrew. Also a manly woman. <b>Virago</b> is pronounced vih-RAH-goh.
