My wife called her (Palin) a "Scold" If you don't know the meaning

[alfredo]

go here:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=safari&rls=en-us&defl=en&q=define:scold&sa=X&oi=glossary_definition&ct=title

Definitions of scold on the Web:

call on the carpet: censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime ...

grouch: show one's unhappiness or critical attitude; "He scolded about anything that he thought was wrong"; "We grumbled about the increased work load"

someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault

wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
A person fond of abusive language, in particular a troublesome and angry woman; To rebuke
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/scold

It's nice to be married to a writer.

[Warpy]

1. Your wife is a smart person

and I've been calling that type of big hair god botherer "a common scold" for years.

Of all the types we could do best without, it's the moralist who shrieks and points fingers at everybody else while his/her own life exemplifies everything s/he is shrieking against.

Consider the family values that produced a son whose vandalism netted him a choice between war or jail and a daughter who is pregnant and rushed into a marriage far too soon, not to mention an infant with a lot of very serious questions surrounding his birth.

She really is a common scold, a morals bully who is trying to make everyone else feel so bad they won't look too closely at her own life.

The only question is how many people will continue to fall for the bullying.

[alfredo]

3. Her attacks on the media lend weight to your arguments.

[marshall]

2. It's an old word for bitch

used more often in the Renaissance, it has fallen out of use.

[alfredo]

4. Like I said, I like being married to a writer. In Kentucky we seem to

use a lot of obsolete terms. Eastern Ky is inhabited by people who were isolated for most of our nation's history. Until recently, their culture was intact. Listen to the music of the region and you can trace it back to the 1700's.

[marshall]

5. I remember the term from my undergrad Shakespeare class

It was used to describe Kate in "The Taming of the Shrew".

[alfredo]

6. I still hear old words like Harpy and Haint.