Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault.
An old or over-worked horse.
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Examples for "scold "
Examples for "scold "
1 As soon as you leave, she'll be free to scold me again.
2 Then the Queen began to scold the little lady, and to say:
3 I wondered why she didn't scold me for being gone so long.
4 Burtson conjured the words as a scold , but they emerged more plealike.
5 Now they have something really to scold us about; but never mind.
1 He is simply a nagger of men that has had his day.
2 Holly may have personality problems, but she's a very efficient nagger .
3 Holly is a very good nagger , when she puts her mind to it.
4 But Milly was not a nagger , at least not with men.
5 To myself he confided that his host was a nagger .
1 Isn't mother the most interesting ' scolder ' you ever listened to?
2 Mr Graham's transformation from scolder to sycophant was stunning to behold, but not necessarily surprising.
3 Those new houses up on Old Scolder Mountain cut across a sacred hunting ground.
4 All those houses going up on Old Scolder Mountain that was sacred ground for generations.
5 City fellow, late forties, big-shot executive, bought himself a bit of forest around Old Scolder Mountain.
1 I'm here merely in the office of chaperon and common scold .
2 He was made to order for the position of common scold in a country sewing-circle.
3 He had the tongue of a common scold , and he used it with malevolent abandon.
4 I could do nothing, though I talked till I was no better than a common scold .
5 Treason was punished with death, and common scolds were ducked in a pond until they were glad to hold their tongues.
To bother persistently with trivial complaints.
1 It was not in Kay's nature to nag ; she let it drop.
2 He put the old nag in a lope down the rocky creek.
3 After a time the trotting nag overtook the trailers of the procession.
4 He put his find in his pocket and whipped up the nag .
5 With a kick he started the old nag and again pulled in.
6 How sick am I of saddle and nag and the open road.
7 Walter rang the bell, and ordered the four-wheeler and his own nag .
8 The Jew had remained on the road, with his cart and nag .
9 He had his lesson and would not nag the boy any more.
10 The nag is sure of foot, and will leap like a panther.
11 And when I try to counteract it, Barry says that I nag .
12 She'd have to clean the place or it would nag at her.
13 No day passes when the lady elders don't nag me about procreation.
14 Reuben's nag was lame as usual; she refused to budge at first.
15 A nag that could not be answered and would not go away.
16 I was wondering who had outrode the paint-horse and Billie's little nag .
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