Common Scold
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
[L. Lat. communis rixatrix."] A quarrelsome woman, whose conduct is a public nuisance to her neighborhood.
4 BL Com, 168.
In England, common scolds may be indicted, and were formerly punishable by being placed in the trebucket, castigatory, or cucking stool, (q. V.) Id, ibid, 169. In American law common scolds are nuisances, and may be punished as such.
Wharton's Am. Crim. Law, 605.