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English
Etymology
Compound of woke (“aware of social-justice issues”) + scold.
Noun
wokescold (plural wokescolds)
- (neologism, informal, derogatory) A person who criticizes or shames others for being insufficiently woke, or not supporting social justice causes.
- Synonym: social justice warrior
- Hypernyms: wokeling, wokester, woketard, wokie
2019 November 6, Jason O'Day, “Obama isn't feeling 'woke'”, in The Daily Iowan, University of Iowa, page 4: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.
2020, Dana Loesch, Grace Canceled: How Outrage is Destroying Lives, Ending Debate, and Endangering Democracy, unnumbered page:When it was announced that David Mamet's American Buffalo was returning to Broadway, cranky theater wokescolds protested.
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Verb
wokescold (third-person singular simple present wokescolds, present participle wokescolding, simple past and past participle wokescolded)
- (neologism, informal, derogatory) To aggressively chastise or berate somebody for holding insufficiently left-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.