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common scold
noun
- (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.
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He was made to order for the position of common scold in a country sewing-circle.
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Conviction of a common scold, Sept. 11, 1821; sentence not reported.
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Another woman was carried round, a distaff in her hand and a blue hood on her head, for a common scold.
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At home she might make herself a common scold, might be pestiferously officious and more than pestiferously noisy.
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