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scold

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

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drench

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English drenchen, from Old English dren?an, from Proto-Germanic *drankijan? (compare Dutch drenken ‘to get a drink’, German tränken ‘to water, give a drink’), causative of *drinkan? (to drink). More at drink.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d??nt?/
  • Rhymes: -?nt?

Noun

drench (plural drenches)

  1. A draught administered to an animal.
  2. (obsolete) A drink; a draught; specifically, a potion of medicine poured or forced down the throat; also, a potion that causes purging.
    • A drench of wine has with success been us'd,
      And through a horn the gen'rous juice infus'd,
      Which, timely taken, op'd his closing jaws,
      But, if too late, the patient's death did cause.
    • 1907, Mark Twain, Christian Science and the Book of Mrs. Eddy
      I took up the 'Christian Scientist' book and read half of it, then took a dipperful of drench and read the other half.
Translations

Verb

drench (third-person singular simple present drenches, present participle drenching, simple past and past participle drenched)

  1. To soak, to make very wet.
    • Now dam the ditches and the floods restrain; / Their moisture has already drenched the plain.
  2. To cause to drink; especially, to dose (e.g. a horse) with medicine by force.
Related terms
  • drenched (adjective)
  • drenching (noun)
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English dreng, from Old English dreng (warrior, soldier), from Proto-Germanic *drangijaz, cognate to Old Norse drengr.

Noun

drench (plural drenches)

  1. (obsolete, Britain) A military vassal, mentioned in the Domesday Book.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Burrill to this entry?)

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