different between scald vs scop

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

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old English scop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??p/, /?o?p/, /sk?p/

Noun

scop (plural scops)

1. (historical) A poet or minstrel in Anglo-Saxon England.
   • 1900, Reuben Post Halleck, History of English Literature, quoted in 1927, Thomas Tapper, Percy Goetschius, Essentials in Music History, 2011, Facsimile Edition, page 42,

     The kings and nobles often attached to them a scop, or maker of verses. […] The banquet was not complete without the songs of the scop. While the warriors ate the flesh of boar and deer and warmed their blood with horns of foaming ale, the scop, standing where the blaze from a pile of logs disclosed to him the grizzly features of the men, sang his most stirring songs, often accompanying them with the music of a rude harp.

   • 1991, R. N. Sarkar, A Topical Survey of English Literature, India, page 1,

     The poem is, therefore, entitled Widsith which means a great traveller. The scop was moving from place to place to find a Lord in his desolate mind here. […] The Lament of Deor tells a different story. It is the story of sorrow, clearly defined, the sorrow of a similar scop who may have been thrown out of favour and led into an eager search of a new master.

   • 2004, Richard Marsden, The Cambridge Old English Reader, page 273,

     During the feast held in Heorot to celebrate Beowulf's mortal wounding of Grendel, the poet has King Hrothgar's scop perform a 'lay' whose theme of death and disaster is clearly meant to act as a sort of balance to the unbridled joy of the hall-people.

   • 2011, Hugh Magennis, The Cambridge Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Literature, Cambridge University Press, page 43,

     The beginning of the poem introduces a speech by Widsith (lines 1—4a), with an accompanying account of his life and travels as a scop: […] .

Translations

See also

• scops owl

Anagrams

• COPs, COSP, CPOs, PCOS, PCSO, PoCs, cops

Old English

Alternative forms

• s?eop

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *skup?. Cognate with Old High German scof (“poet”), Old Norse skop (“mocking”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?op/

Noun

s?op m

1. poet

Declension

See also

• l?oþ (“poem”)
• l?oþcræft (“poetry”)
• l?oþl?? (“poetic”)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Greek ?????? (skopós).

Noun

scop n (plural scopuri)

1. purpose

Declension

References

• scop in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)