Usually means: Nagging, disruptive person in community.
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  1. common scold: Merriam-Webster
  2. common scold: Vocabulary.com
  3. common scold: Wordnik
  4. common scold: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. Common scold, common scold: Dictionary.com
  6. Common scold: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. common scold: Rhymezone
  8. common scold: FreeDictionary.org
  9. common scold: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. common scold: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Common scold, Common scold: Legal dictionary

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  1. common scold: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wikipedia (Common scold)

noun:  In the common law of crime in England and Wales, a common scold was a type of public nuisance—a troublesome and angry person who broke the public peace by habitually chastising, arguing, and quarrelling with their neighbours.


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