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▪ I. scolding, vbl. n.|ˈskəʊldɪŋ|
[f. scold v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb scold; vituperation, angry reproach, reproof.
1486Bk. St. Albans f. vij, A scoldyng of kemsteris. 1547Nottingham Rec. (1889) IV. 92 We presentt Anes Fyllddyng for okypying of comyn skowdyng. a1586Sidney Arcadia i. (Sommer) 59 He fell to a fresh scolding, in such mannerlie manner, as might well shewe he had passed thro' the discipline of a Tauerne. 1596Shakes. Tam. Shr. i. ii. 109 And she knew him as wel as I do, she would thinke scolding would doe little good vpon him. 1651Baxter Inf. Bapt. 239 And then they make Religion the pretence for all their scoldings. 1755J. Shebbeare Lydia (1769) II. 33 Mrs. Clench, as I am informed, was obliged to turn her and her mother out of doors, they kept such an eternal scolding to-gether. 1877O. W. Holmes How not to Settle it 12 A page of Hood may do a fellow good After a scolding from Carlyle or Ruskin. 1875W. S. Hayward Love agst. World 38, I shall give him a good scolding after dinner.
b. attrib. and Comb., as scolding-match; † scolding cart = scold-cart (scold n. 1 c); scolding-stock nonce-wd., an object for scolding; † scolding stool, a cucking stool.
1474in Jrnl. Chester Arch. etc. Soc. (1861) vi. 216 Costes doon in makyng of the scooldyng stoole. 1629in W. Kelly Anc. Rec. Leicester (1855) 78 Paid to Frauncis Pallmer for making two wheeles and one barr for the Scolding-Cart ijs. 1754Fielding Voy. Lisbon Wks. 1882 VII. 65 She played on two instruments..; these were two maids, or rather scolding-stocks. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xv. III. 548 Report indeed spoke of some scolding matches between the Chancellor and his friend.
▪ II. scolding, ppl. a.|ˈskəʊldɪŋ|
[f. scold v. + -ing2.]
That scolds.
1533Frith Another Bk. agst. Rastell B iij, He..calleth them raylynge gestynge and scoldinge wordes. 1577Kendall Flowers of Epigr. 95 b, But Molzus..caste in his wife, and saied, Naught heauier than a skoldyng wife, I deme there can be waied. 1596Shakes. Tam. Shr. i. ii. 100 Her name is Katherina Minola, Renown'd in Padua for her scolding tongue. 1638–56Cowley Davideis iii. note 37 Juvenal says of a loud scolding woman, that she alone was able to relieve the Moon out of an Eclipse. 1719D'Urfey Pills II. 324 Think what lives Some of you daily Live with Scolding Wives. 1844Mrs. Carlyle Lett. I. 298, I have written Jeannie a very scolding letter.
transf. and fig.1601Shakes. Jul. C. i. iii. 5, I haue seene Tempests, when the scolding Winds Haue riu'd the knottie Oakes. 1855Tennyson Brook 84 The gate Half-parted from a weak and scolding hinge, Stuck.
Hence ˈscoldingly adv.
1548Elyot Dict., Rixose, scoldynglie. 1912J. Stephens Crock of Gold v. xiv. 208 As they approached the door the sound of a female voice came to them scoldingly. 1933E. O'Neill Ah, Wilderness! iv. iii. 152 She goes on scoldingly. |