different between bullying vs scald

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?b?l.i.??/

Etymology 1

From bully +? -ing.

Noun

bullying (countable and uncountable, plural bullyings)

1. An act of intimidating a person to do something, especially such repeated coercion.
2. Persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant for another person.

Related terms

• bully

Translations

See also

• abuse
• mobbing

Etymology 2

From bully +? -ing.

Verb

bullying

1. present participle of bully

Further reading

• bullying on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English bullying.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?bu.l?/

Noun

bullying m (uncountable)

1. bullying (persistent acts intended to make someone’s life unpleasant)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bulin/, [?bu.l?n]

Noun

bullying m (uncountable)

1. bullying

   Synonyms: acoso escolar, hostigamiento escolar

See also

• mobbing

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /sk?ld/; (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /sk?ld/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /sk??ld/, /sk?ld/
• Rhymes: -??ld

Etymology 1

From Middle English scalden, from Old Northern French escalder (Old French eschalder, French échauder), from Late Latin excaldare (“bathe in hot water”), from Latin ex- (“off, out”) + calidus (“hot”)

Verb

scald (third-person singular simple present scalds, present participle scalding, simple past and past participle scalded)

1. To burn with hot liquid.

   to scald the hand

   • 1605, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Lear, IV. vii. 48:

     Mine own tears / Do scald like molten lead.

   • 1656, Abraham Cowley, Davideis

     Here the blue flames of scalding brimstone fall.

2. (cooking) To heat almost to boiling.

   Scald the milk until little bubbles form.

Translations

Noun

scald (plural scalds)

1. A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by hot liquid or steam.

Translations

Etymology 2

Alteration of scall or scalled.

Noun

scald (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Scaliness; a scabby skin disease.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.vii:

     Her craftie head was altogether bald, / And as in hate of honorable eld, / Was ouergrowne with scurfe and filthy scald […].

Adjective

scald (comparative more scald, superlative most scald)

1. (obsolete) Affected with the scab; scabby.
2. (obsolete) Paltry; worthless.

Synonyms

• (scabby): roynish, scurvy; see also Thesaurus:scabby
• (paltry): contemptible, miserable, trashy; see also Thesaurus:despicable

Etymology 3

Noun

scald (plural scalds)

1. Alternative form of skald
   • ?, Walter Scott, Saxon War Song

References

Anagrams

• DACLs, S.D. Cal., clads

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [skald]

Verb

scald

1. first-person singular present indicative of sc?lda
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of sc?lda