Dictionary

wokescold en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (derogatory, informal, neologism) 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. 2019 January 10, Ben Shapiro, “2019: The Year Of The Wokescolds”, in The Cocheco Times, page 6:
   • When it was announced that David Mamet's American Buffalo was returning to Broadway, cranky theater wokescolds protested. 2020, Dana Loesch, Grace Canceled: How Outrage is Destroying Lives, Ending Debate, and Endangering Democracy, unnumbered page:
   • 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. 2019 November 6, Jason O'Day, “Obama isn't feeling 'woke'”, in The Daily Iowan, University of Iowa, page 4:

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Hypernyms

wokie · wokeling · wokester · woketard

Synonyms

social justice warrior

wokescold en · VERB

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (derogatory, informal, neologism) 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.
   • She then proceeded to wokescold the man for even mentioning that misandry legitimately exists.

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