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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



... French author, that little girls ought not to be suffered to have dolls to play with, to call them pretty dears, to admire their black eyes and cherry cheeks, to lament and bewail over them if they fall down and hurt their faces, to praise them when they are good, and scold them when they are naughty. It is a school of affectation: Miss Baillie has profited of it. She treats her grown men and women as little girls treat their dolls—makes moral puppets of them, pulls the wires, and ...
— Lectures on the English Poets - Delivered at the Surrey Institution • William Hazlitt
... that there be mustard.' As you see, they were exceedingly fond of mustard. Richard Tarleton, an actor of Queen Elizabeth's time, who was much at Court as jester, is reported as having called mustard 'a witty scold ...
— John and Betty's History Visit • Margaret Williamson
... hear a word. Why do you scold me when I have kept my promise? If I dared to take my fingers from my ears I would give you the money for Nanny. And, Mr. Dishart, I must be ...
— The Little Minister • J.M. Barrie
... "Don't scold, Hitty," Nancy coaxed. "I could make perfectly good baby clothes if I needed to. Don't you think I'll be of more use in the world serving nourishing food to hordes of hungry men and women than making baby ...
— Outside Inn • Ethel M. Kelley
... mamma;" and they started at once for the orchard. A pair of kingbirds had built a nest on a low branch of an apple-tree; and in the nest were two little baby-birdies. As soon as the old birds saw Josie and her mamma coming, they began to scold, and fly about in ...
— The Nursery, August 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 2 • Various


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