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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)
- 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.
- A ?claunderous tunge, a tunge of a ?kolde,
- 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.
- c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Again?t venemous tongues enpoy?oned with ?claunder and fal?e detractions &c.:
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)
- (transitive, intransitive) To rebuke angrily.
- 1813, Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
- A week elapsed before she could see Elizabeth without scolding her —
- 1813, Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
- (ornithology) Of birds, to make harsh vocalisations in aggression.
- Of birds, to make vocalisations that resemble human scolding.
- Misconstruction of scald
Derived terms
- outscold
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:criticize
Translations
References
Anagrams
- clods, clos'd, colds
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sculd
English
Etymology 1
From back-formation of sculding. Related to Norwegian skulding (“accusation”).
Alternative forms
- scould, skuld, skuild
Verb
sculd (third-person singular simple present sculds, present participle sculding, simple past and past participle sculded)
- (transitive, Britain dialectal, Scotland) To accuse (someone) of wrongdoing, especially under the procedure known as sculding.
Related terms
- sculding
Etymology 2
Related to Old Norse skilja (“to divide”).
Noun
sculd (plural sculds)
- (rare, Britain dialectal) A parting.
Old High German
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *skuldi.
Noun
sculd f
- debt
Descendants
- Middle High German: schult, schulde
- German: Schuld
- ? Esperanto: ?uldo
- Luxembourgish: Schold
- Yiddish: ????? (shuld)
- German: Schuld
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