common scold
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of common scold
First recorded in 1760–70
Example Sentences
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But, as always, Khrushchev on tour turned out to be part frolicking peasant, part common scold.
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
He envisions himself as a kind of public conscience to the profession, and succeeds at least in being its common scold.
From Time Magazine Archive
Catherine Cairns was arrested as a common scold, clapped in jail to mend her talk.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mrs. Royall's tongue at last became so unendurable that she was formally indicted by the Grand Jury as a common scold, and was tried in the Circuit Court before Judge Cranch.
From Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis by Benjamin Perley Poore
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