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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To reprimand or criticize harshly and usually angrily.
  2. v. To reprove or criticize openly.
  3. n. One who persistently nags or criticizes: "As a critic gets older, he or she usually grows more tetchy and . . . may even become a big-league scold” ( James Wolcott).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To chide or find fault, especially with noisy clamor or railing; utter harsh rebuke, railing, or vituperation.
  2. To chide with railing or clamor; berate; rail at.
  3. n. One who scolds; a scolder; especially, a noisy, railing woman; a termagant.
  4. n. A scolding: as, she gave him a rousing scold.

Wiktionary

  1. n. obsolete A person fond of abusive language, in particular a troublesome and angry woman.
  2. v. To rebuke.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To find fault or rail with rude clamor; to brawl; to utter harsh, rude, boisterous rebuke; to chide sharply or coarsely; -- often with at.
  2. v. To chide with rudeness and clamor; to rate; also, to rebuke or reprove with severity.
  3. n. One who scolds, or makes a practice of scolding; esp., a rude, clamorous woman; a shrew.
  4. n. A scolding; a brawl.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. censure severely or angrily
  2. n. someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault
  3. v. show one's unhappiness or critical attitude

Etymologies

  1. From Old Norse skald "poet". English since the 12th century. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English scolden, to be abusive, from scolde, an abusive person, probably of Scandinavian origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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