different between scold vs blam

English

Etymology

The noun is from Middle English scold(e), skald(e), first attested in the 12th or 13th century (as scold, scolde, skolde, skald). The verb is from Middle English scolden, first attested in the late 1300s. Most dictionaries derive the verb from the noun and say the noun is probably from Old Norse skald (“poet”) (cognate with Icelandic skáld (“poet, scop”)), as skalds sometimes wrote insulting poems, though another view is that the Norse and English words are cognate to each other and to Old High German skeldan, Old Dutch skeldan, all inherited from Proto-Germanic *skeldan? (“scold”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /sk??ld/, [sk???d]
• (US) IPA^(key): /sko?ld/
• Rhymes: -??ld

Noun

scold (plural scolds)

1. A person who habitually scolds, in particular a troublesome and angry woman.
   • c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Again?t venemous tongues enpoy?oned with ?claunder and fal?e detractions &c.:

     A ?claunderous tunge, a tunge of a ?kolde,
     Worketh more mi?chiefe than can be tolde;
     That, if I wi?t not to be controlde,
     Yet ?omwhat to ?ay I dare well be bolde,
     How ?ome delite for to lye, thycke and threfolde.

   • 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part II, XVIII [Uniform ed., p. 196]:

     “Well, I won’t have it, and that’s enough.” She laughed, for her voice had a little been that of the professional scold.

Alternative forms

• scould, scolde (obsolete)

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:shrew

Related terms

• scold's bridle

Translations

Verb

scold (third-person singular simple present scolds, present participle scolding, simple past and past participle scolded)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To rebuke angrily.
   • 1813, Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

     A week elapsed before she could see Elizabeth without scolding her —
2. (ornithology) Of birds, to make harsh vocalisations in aggression.
3. Of birds, to make vocalisations that resemble human scolding.
4. Misconstruction of scald

Derived terms

• outscold

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:criticize

Translations

References

Anagrams

• clods, clos'd, colds

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [?blæm], [?blam]
• Rhymes: -æm

Etymology 1

By onomatopoeia.

Noun

blam (plural blams)

1. A sudden, explosive sound, such as is made by a gunshot

   He kicked in the door with a blam.

Interjection

blam

1. A sudden, explosive sound, such as is made by a gunshot

   That the last zombie? Here. Let me get that for ya. *BLAM!*

Verb

blam (third-person singular simple present blams, present participle blamming, simple past and past participle blammed) (slang, MLE, regional African-American Vernacular)

1. (intransitive) To shoot, to let gunfire pass.
2. (transitive) To shoot, to kill by gunshot.

Derived terms

• blam up (“= to shoot up”) 

Etymology 2

Blend of blog +? spam

Noun

blam (uncountable)

1. (Internet, informal) spam posted to a blog
   • 2012, Martin Peitz, Joel Waldfogel, The Oxford Handbook of the Digital Economy

     […] we refer to unsolicited and unwanted advertising as spam. The phenomenon is widespread, and has led people to coin terms for it in other information product or service contexts, such as splog or blam (unsolicited advertisements in blog comments), spim (instant messaging), […]

Anagrams

• ALBM, BAML, LBMA, Lamb, balm, lamb

Middle English

Noun

blam

1. (rare) Alternative form of blame

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Back-formation from blamírati.

Noun

bl?m m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. (Serbia, colloquial) (feeling of) embarrassment

Related terms

• blamáža (“(an instance of) embarrassment”)
• blamírati (“to embarrass”)