The Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue dates from 1811 and this is probably the only full, uncensored and searchable version of this dictionary on the internet. All the original crudities have been restored and it offers an interesting perspective on Common English from the time of the Regency and Jane Austen.

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Entries releated to SCOLD

 

BUTTOCK AND TONGUE		A scolding wife.
CHIVEY		I gave him a good chivey; I gave him, a hearty scolding.
CLAPPER CLAW		To scold, to abuse, or claw off with the tongue.
COMB		To comb one's head; to clapperclaw, or scold any one: a woman who lectures her husband, is said to comb his head. She combed his head with a joint stool; she threw a stool at him.
CURTAIN LECTURE		A woman who scolds her husband when in bed, is said to read him a curtain lecture.
FLEA BITE		A trifling injury. To send any one away with a flea in his ear; to give any one a hearty scolding.
HELL CAT		A termagant, a vixen, a furious scolding woman. See TERMAGANT and VIXEN.
HUFF		To reprove, or scold at any one; also to bluster, bounce, ding, or swagger. A captain huff; a noted bully. To stand the huff; to be answerable for the reckoning in a public house.
JUNIPER LECTURE		A round scolding bout.
MAUNDERING BROTH		Scolding.
PEAL		To ring a peal in a man's ears; to scold at him: his wife rang him such a peal!
RAILS		See HEAD RAILS. A dish of rails; a lecture, jobation, or scolding from a married woman to her husband.
RATTLE		A dice-box. To rattle; to talk without consideration, also to move off or go away. To rattle one off; to rate or scold him.
SCOLD'S CURE		A coffin. The blowen has napped the scold's cure; the bitch is in her coffin.
TERMAGANT		An outrageous scold from Termagantes, a cruel Pagan, formerly represented in diners shows and entertainments, where being dressed a la Turque, in long clothes, he was mistaken for a furious woman.
TONGUE		Tongue enough for two sets of teeth: said of a talkative person. As old as my tongue, and a little older than my teeth; a dovetail in answer to the question, How old are you? Tongue pad; a scold, or nimble-tongued person.
XANTIPPE		The name of Socrates's wife: now used to signify a shrew or scolding wife.