Usually means: Nagging, disruptive person in community.
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  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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