SCOLD


Meaning of SCOLD in English

I. ˈskōld noun

( -s )

Etymology: Middle English scald, scold, probably of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse skald, skāld poet, skald, Icelandic skālda to make scurrilous or libelous verse; perhaps akin to Old Irish scēl story, Welsh chwedl

1.

a. : one who scolds habitually or persistently

she is an irksome brawling scold — Shakespeare

afraid of going down to posterity as the despised scold in her husband's life — E.J.Simmons

scourge of Presidents, constant dissenter and filibustering scold — L.E.Davies

has become something of a public scold against the rebellious young — L.L.King

only the squirrels, those born scolds, to reprove our indolence — New Yorker

b. : common scold

2. : a severe reprimand or rebuke : scolding

put him in an ill humor by the scold she gave him — Oliver Goldsmith

II. verb

( -ed/-ing/-s )

Etymology: Middle English scalden, scolden, from scald, scold, n.

intransitive verb

1. obsolete : to quarrel noisily : use harsh or vituperative language

2. : to find fault usually noisily or rudely : utter harsh rebuke : chide sharply and severely — often used with at

could come to terms if they came truly to grips instead of scolding at each other over a barrier of misunderstanding — Edward Sapir

farmers … stood up in their wagons and scolded at the horses — Sherwood Anderson

transitive verb

1. : to force by scolding — used especially with out of

2. : to chide loudly or rudely : rebuke with severity : censure severely or angrily

scolded the … press, not only for undue emphasis on sex and crime but for failure to guess the outcome of elections — Newsweek

scolded for attaching too much importance to phonetic similarity — C.E.Bazell

scold the … investor for unwillingness to assume risks — J.F.Rippy

scold the younger generation of writers severely for their sins — C.I.Glicksberg

Synonyms: see syn

scold , upbraid , rate , berate , tongue-lash , jaw , bawl out , wig , rail , revile , and vituperate mean, in common, to reproach or censure angrily and more or less abusively. scold suggests the censure of a disobedient child by a mother, or implies irritation or ill temper

scold a child for getting home late

one officer who had scolded his subordinates for picking apples from trees alongside a road while on a march — Hanama Tasaki

a catbird … flew up on a lilac limb to scold us — John Moore

upbraid usually suggests a more or less justifiable anger

the Queen upbraided Henry for the scandal he was giving — Francis Hackett

the scene in which Lincoln upbraids his schoolfellows for maltreating a turtle — Reporter

rate and berate suggest a more prolonged angry censure and, generally, abusiveness

rated himself most severely for this feeling of vengefulness — Howard Nemerov

rated him for his want of tact — Adrian Bell

berate the agent for his ill management of the estates — Pearl Buck

heatedly berated the government's … attitude — Time

tongue-lash stresses the effect of severe unrestrained censure or berating upon the person berated

tongue-lashed them in a way that could be heard blocks off — Howard Fast

tongue-lashes him about the exploitation of the workers — Time

The terms jaw , bawl out and wig (chiefly British) emphasize the energetic or noisy harangue that usually characterizes a berating

when we went home late for chores, we got jawed some — C.T.Jackson

a tall, red-headed foreman whose chief asset was bawling out his men — H.A.Overstreet

got a sound wigging in the current issue from one of their own and from a pair of practitioners in other fields — Time

rail , usually with at or against, is a strong, more abusive, usually contemptuous berating

rail against humanity for not being abstract perfection — T.L.Peacock

physicians time and again rail at the courts for applying a test of mental responsibility so narrow and inadequate — B.N.Cardozo

had called his people lazy louts … railed against his inclination to dreams — Sherwood Anderson

revile puts emphasis upon abusiveness more strongly than any of the others, and usually implies vilification

had to hear themselves reviled as traitors by lesser Americans — Kenneth Roberts

vituperate is interchangeable with revile though suggesting even more violence of censure or attack

with his angry face and his trembling hands vituperating him — Archibald Marshall

how the sage reviled and vituperated the horrors of city life — A.C.Benson

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