common scold

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Noun1.Common scold - someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding faultcommon scold - someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault
nag, nagger, scold, scolder
disagreeable person, unpleasant person - a person who is not pleasant or agreeable
harridan - a scolding (even vicious) old woman
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In another, he warned me of the danger of being thought of as a "common scold."
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For example, in one place, she translates communis diffamator vcinorum as "common defamer of his neighbors"; in another, communis diffamatrix vicinorum suorum as "common scold." Perhaps there is something in the context of the record, other than the difference in gender, that justifies translating this second example as "scold" rather than simply "defamer" (defamation was another common speech crime in this period), but this context is lost on the reader.
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43 Jenny Pipes of Leominster was the last person in England or Wales ever to undergo which ancient punishment for being a common scold, in 1809?
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