† scrattopn.
Obsolete. rare.
(A term of abuse.)
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the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill-naturedness > ill nature in woman or shrewishness > [noun] > shrew
scoldc1175
shrewc1386
viragoc1386
scolder1423
common scold1467
wild cat1570
vixen1575
callet1577
termagant1578
(Long) Meg of Westminster1589
butter whore1592
cotquean1593
scrattop1593
scoldsterc1600
butter-quean1613
Xantippea1616
fury1620
Tartar1669
fish-woman1698
cross-patch1699
Whitechapel fortune1734
brimstone1751
randy1762
fish-fag1786
rantipole1790
skellata1810
skimmington1813
targer1822
skellat-bell1827
catamaran1834
nagster1873
yenta1923
1593 T. Nashe Strange Newes G 3 b Why thou arrant butter whore, thou cotqueane, & scrattop of scoldes, wilt thou neuer leaue afflicting a dead Carcasse.
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