scoldern.1
/ˈskəʊldə/, U.S. /ˈskoʊldər/ One who scolds. Formerly, †a common scold.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > invective or abuse > [noun] > one who uses invective or abuse
scoldc1175
scolder1423
railer1513
reviler1517
stinger1552
disgracer1570
invectiver1596
inveighera1601
outrayer1602
blatant1610
vent-giver1611
invector1654
insectator1706
slangwhanger1807
vituperator1837
invectivist1862
clapperclawer1873
vituperant1889
the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill-naturedness > ill nature in woman or shrewishness > [noun] > shrew
scoldc1175
shrewc1386
viragoc1386
scolder1423
common scold1467
wild cat1570
vixen1575
callet1577
termagant1578
(Long) Meg of Westminster1589
butter whore1592
cotquean1593
scrattop1593
scoldsterc1600
butter-quean1613
Xantippea1616
fury1620
Tartar1669
fish-woman1698
cross-patch1699
Whitechapel fortune1734
brimstone1751
randy1762
fish-fag1786
rantipole1790
skellata1810
skimmington1813
targer1822
skellat-bell1827
catamaran1834
nagster1873
yenta1923
society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [noun] > noisy or angry quarrel > one who > female
chidesterc1386
chideressc1400
scolder1423
common scold1467
termagant1578
scoldsterc1600
society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [noun] > noisy or angry quarrel > one who
scoldc1175
brawler1377
chider1377
fliterc1440
wraggera1500
bargainer?a1513
wrangler?1518
brangler1611
scolder1673
fratcher1847
jangler1884
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > [noun] > rebuker or reprover > scolder
chider?1518
scolder1673
rater1863
castigator1873
1423 Coventry Leet Bk. 59 A Cookestowle..to punysche skolders and chidders as þe law wyll.
1497 Will in J. Strype Stow's Survey of London (1720) I. iii. iv. 58/1 Provyded, that al Vacabonds, Scowldars and Brawlers, be rewarded after the Mind and Discretion, and good Conscience, of mine Executors.
?1518 A. Barclay tr. D. Mancinus Myrrour Good Maners sig. Hv Here nat that scolder, and braulyng hounde of hell.
1595 K. Oliver's Conf. in Trans. Royal Hist. Soc. (1907) 3rd Ser. 1 273 I have bene a scoulder and a slaunderouse person, and a sower of strife amongest my neighbors.
1673 H. Stubbe Further Iustification War against Netherlands 70 A Scoulder and a Taunter is reckoned..with Thieves and Idolaters.
1794 S. T. Coleridge Fall of Robespierre i. 183 The cool ferocious Robespierre turn'd scolder!
1875 M. Collins Sweet & Twenty I. i. vii. 102 Betty Carr was a finer scolder..than you will easily meet with.
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scoldern.2
/ˈskəʊldə/, U.S. /ˈskoʊldər/ Orkney.
The oyster-catcher, Hæmatopus ostralegus.
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a1795 G. Low Fauna Orcadensis (1813) 91 The Sea-Pie..Orc. Sceolder.
1805 G. Barry Hist. Orkney iii. i. 306 The Sea Pie..in some places here gets the name of the scolder.
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