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1560 Nice Wanton in W. C. Hazlitt Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1874) II. 179 Such a jade she is, and so curst a quean, She would out-scold the devil's dame I ween.

1596 Raigne of Edward III sig. I2 What need me fight, and sweate, and keep a coile, When railing crowes outscolde our aduersaries. View more context for this quotation

a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) v. ii. 160 There end thy braue,..We grant thou canst out-scold vs. View more context for this quotation

1693 G. Powell Very Good Wife i. 1 I dare Swear, she'd Out-scold ten Carted Bawds when she's sober.

1729 C. Cibber Rival Queans iii. i. 23 So will thy Tongue out-scold all Womankind.

1770 T. Bridges Burlesque Transl. Homer II. ix. 131 What need he for help to call, Whose clapper can outscold them all?

1812 M. R. Mitford Let. 12 July in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) I. vi. 204 A friend of mine who went into hysterics because she was out-scolded by her husband.

1842 Ladies' Repository Sept. 275/2 I tried Mrs. G., a Universalist, Mrs. F., a Deist, and Mrs. S., a real Owenite—Fanny Wright woman, but Mrs. Fretful can out-scold them all.

1957 Shakespeare Q. 8 487 The characterisation shifted round the table and Brutus outscolded Cassius, missing the true ring of his own anger, cold, deep and deadly.

1971 Shakespeare Q. 22 86 Petruchio will defeat the shrew not only in the erotic arena but also in the rhetorical, by deploying a more recondite verbal battery to out-scold her.