wokescold

noun

Etymology

From woke (“aware of social-justice issues”) + scold.

  1. derived from skald — “poet
  2. inherited from scolden
  3. inherited from scold
  4. compounded as wokescold — “woke + scold

Definitions

  1. A person who criticizes or shames others for being insufficiently woke, or not supporting…

    A person who criticizes or shames others for being insufficiently woke, or not supporting social justice causes.

    • Wokescolds are the new representatives of moral panic.
    • Like Pope Urban VII, the self-righteous wokescolds seek to impose their questionable views and shifty standards on the rest of society by silencing dissenters with labels.
    • When it was announced that David Mamet's American Buffalo was returning to Broadway, cranky theater wokescolds protested.
  2. To aggressively chastise or berate somebody for holding insufficiently social-liberal…

    To aggressively chastise or berate somebody for holding insufficiently social-liberal political or social views, or for behaving in a manner antithetical to such views.

    • He then proceeded to wokescold the woman for not changing her pfp like everyone else had recently done.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA