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Scolder   Listen
noun
Scolder  n.  
1.
One who scolds.
2.
(Zool.)
(a)
The oyster catcher; so called from its shrill cries.
(b)
The old squaw. (Local U.S.)






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"Scolder" Quotes from Famous Books



... the time when Bob's household began to walk on tiptoe in fearful and happy expectancy, old Timmie left, bag and baggage, for the younger home, where she had thereafter remained as nurse, comforter, scolder and chief director of the new heir, as well as of the premises in general. The Colonel having lately suggested that Mr. Hart, Jr.,—or Bip, for short—being now six years of age, was too big for her to manage, had called forth an eloquent outburst, ...
— Sunlight Patch • Credo Fitch Harris



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