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scald head, ˈscald-head
[scald a.1]
1. A person's head diseased with ringworm or some similar affection.
1546J. Heywood Prov. (1867) 49 A scalde head is soone broken. 1615G. Sandys Trav. 53 Meane of stature he was, & euill proportioned: hauing euer a scald head. a1756Eliza Heywood New Present (1771) 247 An infallible Remedy for a Scald Head. 1826Hood Irish Schoolm. xix, The Pedagogue, with sudden drub, Smites his scald head, that is already sore. 1882Jamieson's Sc. Dict., Scaud-head, Scaut-head, a head disfigured with patches of scrofula.
transf.1808M. T. Kemble Day after Wedding 12 I'll make you a toupee. I hate your scald-heads, all dragged up at the roots.
2. A popular term for tinea or other similar scalp affections.
1675H. Woolley Gentlew. Comp. 179 For a Scald head. Take a Candle, and let it drop upon it as hot as you can, in so doing it will scale off. 1725Bradley's Fam. Dict. s.v., There are several sorts of Scald Heads, some resemble the Grains of Figs..; others are small bits of Flesh..and others are like Farinous Tetters. 1845Encycl. Metrop. VII. 791/1 Porrigo is a generic term for an eruption of psydracious pustules, usually termed scald-head. 1871G. H. Napheys Prev. & Cure Dis. iii. xiii. 1077 One of the forms of ‘scald head’.
So scald-headed a., having a ‘scald head’; also fig.
1802C. Wilmot Let. 19 Oct. in Irish Peer on Continent (1920) 102 Grim scaldheaded Mountains. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. iii. vi, Is Royalty grown a mere wooden Scarecrow; whereon thou, pert scaldheaded crow, mayest alight at pleasure and peck? 1856R. A. Vaughan Mystics I. iii. iv. 103 Every humpbacked, one-eyed, scald⁓headed passenger had to pay a penny for each infirmity. |