common scold

1. 1.

   someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault

   Synonymsscoldscoldernagnagger

   Broaderunpleasant person

   Narrowerharridan

Questions about common scold

What does common scold mean?

common scold means "someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault".

What is another word for common scold?

Close synonyms include scold, scolder, nag, nagger. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is common scold a common word?

common scold is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.