Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A female scold.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A female scold.
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- noun obsolete One who
chides ornags ; ascold .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Yes | No | Report from brian. chidester wrote 9 weeks 4 hours ago
I am looking to purchase a larger hub style blind than my Cabelas Lighting Setup. 2009
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Yes | No | Report from brian. chidester wrote 9 weeks 4 hours ago
I am looking to purchase a larger hub style blind than my Cabelas Lighting Setup. 2009
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‘dwelster’ (Jer.xxi. 13); and ‘singer’ ‘singster’ (2 Kin.xix. 35); so too, ‘chider’ had ‘chidester’ (Chaucer), as well as ‘chideress’,
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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Anyhow, she's all I've got, -- which is a marvel how the Lord deals with some of us, when you see a little chidester of a woman like Adam Frost's wife with fifteen, boys and girls, and me with only one nesh maid. "
God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889
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Anyhow, she's all I've got, -- which is a marvel how the Lord deals with some of us, when you see a little chidester of a woman like Adam Frost's wife with fifteen, boys and girls, and me with only one nesh maid. "
God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889
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Anyhow, she's all I've got, -- which is a marvel how the Lord deals with some of us, when you see a little chidester of a woman like Adam Frost's wife with fifteen, boys and girls, and me with only one nesh maid. "
God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889
qms commented on the word chidester
The new bride needs counsel to guide her
But finds it too often denied her.
The groom's jealous dam
Makes family a sham,
And glories in being a chidester.
October 7, 2017