Antonyms for scolder
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : skohld |
| Phonetic Transcription : skoÊŠld |
Definition 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
- 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
Synonyms for scolder
- aristarch
- attacker
- backseat driver
- belittler
- blamer
- carper
- caviler
- censor
- censurer
- complainant
- complainer
- criticizer
- defamer
- disapprover
- disparager
- disputer
- doubter
- faultfinder
- fretter
- hypercritic
- maligner
- muckraker
- mud-slinger
- nagger
- niggler
- nit-picker
- nitpicker
- panner
- quibbler
- reviler
- scolder
- sidewalk superintendent
- slanderer
- vilifier
- worrier
- zapper
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