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Chide

To rebuke to reprove to scold to find fault with

Callet

A trull or prostitute a scold or gossip

Berattle

To make rattle to scold vociferously to cry down

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Berate

To rate or chide vehemently to scold

Cucking stool

A kind of chair formerly used for punishing scolds and also dishonest tradesmen by fastening them in it usually in front of their doors to be pelted

Outscold

To exceed in scolding

Shrewish

having the qualities of a shrew having a scolding disposition froward peevish

Cucking-Stoll

Cucking-Stoll. a chair on which females in ancient times for certain offences, as for being 'Common scolds' were fastened and ducked in a pond, Steph. Com., bk. Vi. Ch. xi

Medlefe, Medleta, Medletum

Medlefe, Medleta, Medletum [fr. meler, Fr., to meddle], a sudden scolding at and beating one another, Bract, 1, 3, c. xxxv.

Obsolete

Obsolete, invalid by virtue of discontinuance, said of a law or practice which has ceased to be enforced or be in use by reason of change of manners and circumstances, as 'wager or battel' (see BATTEL,...

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