This holds good for scolds (predominantly female) as well as for exclusively or predominantly male offences.
Employees were aware that a longer time spent trying to understand a directive would result in being scolded for not having fulfilled the directive promptly.
He praised the energetic and scolded the slack; and competition for honour proved as effective as compulsion.
In addition to three presentments as a scold and one for hedgebreaking, she was co-defendant with her husband in three or more trespass suits.
In the second decade of the sixteenth century, male scolds begin to appear, albeit in very small numbers.
Instead of dutifully keeping his mouth shut when instructed or scolded, he answered back with unbecoming impunity.
We don't scold, but give advice instead and tell them what they should do.
But since most were long-term residents, it seems that being presented as a scold was something that happened only once to most of these individuals.
