Translation for "regañona" to english

Regañona

noun

• scold

Translation examples

scold noun

En tiempos medievales, la charla ociosa era castigada con un dispositivo llamado el freno regañón.
You know, in medieval times, idle chatter was punished with a device called the scold's bridle.

¡Una regañona fastidiosa y pendenciera!
An irksome, brawling scold!

Sé que soy chismosa y regañona.
[Clara] I know. I'm a gossip... and a scold.

Un escuadrón de madres regañonas...
A squadron of scolding mothers... Oh!

Y no aceptaría a una regañona.
And he would accept no scold.

—Eso hubiera sido injusto —contestó, regañón—.
“That would have been most unjust,” he scolded firmly.

Los dos cuervos regañones han hecho mutis de la rama del haya.
The two scolding crows have exited their branch in the beech tree.

—Te estás matando —le amonesté a la manera de una esposa regañona.
'You're going to kill yourself,' I scolded him, sounding a little like a nagging wife.

Shauna inclinó su cuello y negó con la cabeza como una mamá regañona.
Shauna tilted her neck and shook her head like a scolding mother.

interrogaba, paciente y regañón y un poco irónico, preguntaba por la lectura del momento;
he questioned, patient and ironically scolding, inquiring about his current reading;

–¿Y también sabes hacer borrachos camorristas, esposas regañonas y esclavos ladrones?
“And you can imitate, too, brawling drunkards, scolding wives or thieving slaves?”

Pero, a veces, su ira era ardiente y entonces su lenguaje regañón era más fuerte que de costumbre.
But sometimes her wrath would come up hotly and then it would come with more than her usual scolding speech.

Mientras hablaba, se oyó arriba un grito fuerte, seguido por un llanto y la voz regañona de Prue.
As she spoke there came a loud cry from upstairs, followed by a wail, and the sound of Prue's scolding voice.