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common scold
noun
(in early common law) a habitually rude and brawling woman whose conduct was subject to punishment as a public nuisance.
Origin:
1760–70
1760–70
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Common scold
is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
WordNet
| common scold | |
noun | |
| someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault [syn: scold] |
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