common scold
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of common scold
First recorded in 1760–70
Example Sentences
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Catherine Cairns was arrested as a common scold, clapped in jail to mend her talk.
From Time Magazine Archive
"He is not to be a common scold," he wrote in an opinion reprinted recently in the Atlantic.
From Time Magazine Archive
With a loud roar of rage, the felicity of phrasing and invaluable candor of a common scold, he immediately started to set things to rights.
From Time Magazine Archive
But, as always, Khrushchev on tour turned out to be part frolicking peasant, part common scold.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was made to order for the position of common scold in a country sewing-circle.
From Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 33, November 12, 1870 by Various
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