wokescold

English

Etymology

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

Noun

wokescold (plural wokescolds)

1. (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 January 10, Ben Shapiro, “2019: The Year Of The Wokescolds”, in The Cocheco Times, page 6:

     Wokescolds are the new representatives of moral panic.

   • 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.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:wokescold.

Verb

wokescold (third-person singular simple present wokescolds, present participle wokescolding, simple past and past participle wokescolded)

1. (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.