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common scold

noun

  1. (in early common law) a habitually rude and brawling woman whose conduct was subject to punishment as a public nuisance.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of common scold1

First recorded in 1760–70
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Example Sentences

Alice Sheltoir, charged with being a common scold—to the thew.

He was made to order for the position of common scold in a country sewing-circle.

Conviction of a common scold, Sept. 11, 1821; sentence not reported.

Another woman was carried round, a distaff in her hand and a blue hood on her head, for a common scold.

At home she might make herself a common scold, might be pestiferously officious and more than pestiferously noisy.

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