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Scold   /skoʊld/   Listen
verb
Scold  v. t.  To chide with rudeness and clamor; to rate; also, to rebuke or reprove with severity.


Scold  v. i.  (past & past part. scolded; pres. part. scolding)  To find fault or rail with rude clamor; to brawl; to utter harsh, rude, boisterous rebuke; to chide sharply or coarsely; often with at; as, to scold at a servant. "Pardon me, lords, 't is the first time ever I was forced to scold."


noun
Scold  n.  
1.
One who scolds, or makes a practice of scolding; esp., a rude, clamorous woman; a shrew. "She is an irksome, brawling scold."
2.
A scolding; a brawl.





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"Scold" Quotes from Famous Books



... who does not give in to her one whit. Sometimes their disputes reach to such a pitch that a catastrophe seems imminent; then suddenly my aunt relaxes, falls to with an appetite and eats her dinner with a certain determination. To-day she had only the servants to scold, and that was not sufficient to give her an appetite. She was in capital spirits though, and the loving glances she bestowed on me beggar description. In intimate circles I am called my aunt's fetich, which makes her ...
— Without Dogma • Henryk Sienkiewicz
... army marched down the area steps and into a dark hall. They each had a feeling that the woman might change her mind after all, and scold them again. But she was smiling as they ...
— Sunny Boy in the Big City • Ramy Allison White
... pliant, patient woman altered suddenly. She turned out a regular scold; a perfect vixen, who was ever at his heels, distorting his most harmless acts, and starting a new jealousy every day. Once she went for him with finger-nails and scissors; but he had given her such a drubbing that she never attempted that game again. She used her tongue all the more; and ...
— 'Jena' or 'Sedan'? • Franz Beyerlein
... record is: "I was without friends, experience, or connection in the sphere of human business, was of sly humor, proud enough and to spare, and had begun my long curriculum of dyspepsia." This nagging illness was the cause of much of that irritability of temper which frequently led him to scold the public, and for which he has been harshly handled by ...
— English Literature - Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World • William J. Long
... lips, and how deeply we regret in our hearts that the treachery of conspirators dragged us, unwilling, into a forced war. Cease, you publicists, your wordy war against hostile brothers in the profession, whose superiority you cannot scold away, and who merely smile while they pick up, out of your laboriously stirred porridge slowly warmed over a flame of borrowed alcohol, the crumbs on which their "selfishness" is to choke! That national selfishness does not seem a duty to you, but a sin, is something you ...
— New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 - April-September, 1915 • Various


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