What a fabulous list! I forgot about doxy, it sounds so cute!

But I can't help noticing that the list is short on words for forceful positive attributes, those that are have transmogrified into negatives (virago, and maybe bedlam). Tomboy is a phrase that was used to describe me in my childhood, but I never felt like I was acting like a boy, I just felt I was acting like me.

I've seen attempts to recover the word "crone"; some women are having "croning" ceremonies to celebrate the onset of menopause. I applaud the effort, though I gotta admit I'd hesitate to describe myself that way. Unless I can be like Baba Yaga and live in a chicken-legged house.