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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



... thought Griselda, when she had opened the shutters and seen how light it was. "I must have slept a long time. I feel so beautifully unsleepy now. I must dress quickly—how nice it will be to see my aunts look happy again! I don't even care if they scold ...
— The Cuckoo Clock • Mrs. Molesworth
... may spend as much time as you like at it; but if I peep over the transom, or listen through a crack in the door, you mustn't scold. I don't know that I can wait much longer to ...
— Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School - The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls • Jessie Graham Flower
... grief to his wife. Not that the boy would turn out a bad carpenter. If he liked he could succeed in anything. But Joseph was grieved to have to scold his favourite so often. He had to do that to ...
— I.N.R.I. - A prisoner's Story of the Cross • Peter Rosegger
... not," replied the other; "you must not scold about my little sister. Susie knows the motions in the Jack Frost song so well the teachers says that she can motion with the ...
— Big and Little Sisters • Theodora R. Jenness
... her door looking out anxiously, and as she saw him she threw up her hands in thanksgiving to our Lady that here he was at last, and then turned to scold him. "O lad, lad, what a night thou hast given me! I trusted at least that thou hadst wit to keep out of a fray and to let the poor aliens alone, thou that art always running after yonder old Spaniard. Hey! what now? Did they fall on him! Fie! Shame on them!—a harmless ...
— The Armourer's Prentices • Charlotte Mary Yonge


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