Synonyms for scolder

Grammar : Noun

Spell : skohld

Phonetic Transcription : skoʊld

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Définition of scolder

Origin : mid-12c., "person of ribald speech," later "person fond of abusive language" (c.1300), especially a shrewish woman [Johnson defines it as "A clamourous, rude, mean, low, foul-mouthed woman"], from Old Norse skald "poet" (see skald). The sense evolution might reflect the fact that Germanic poets (like their Celtic counterparts) were famously feared for their ability to lampoon and mock (e.g. skaldskapr "poetry," also, in Icelandic law books, "libel in verse").

As in niggler : noun critic
As in nitpicker : noun critic
As in quibbler : noun critic
As in critic : noun faultfinder, detractor

Example sentences :

He was a merciless critic and scolder of the old civilization.
Extract from : « History of American Socialisms » by John Humphrey Noyes

We've too much tact and policy To rate with gibes a scolder; Yet, young and tender though you be, I hope to see you moulder.
Extract from : « Faust » by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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