heart-scaldn.
/ˈhɑːtskɔːld/, U.S. /ˈhɑrtˌskɔld/, /ˈhɑrtˌskɑld/, Scottish English /ˈhartskɔ(l)d/, /ˈhɛrtskɔ(l)d/, Irish English /ˈhɑːrtskɒːld/ Originally and chiefly Scottish, Irish English, and English regional (northern).
1. Originally: a feeling of disgust or aversion. Later: a feeling of bitter disappointment or sorrow; a cause of this.
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the mind > emotion > hatred > dislike > disgust > [noun]
irksomeness1435
tediousness1482
fie?1550
heart-scald1628
disgustion1659
squeasinessa1660
sickness1779
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > disappointment > [noun]
mazec1300
discomfiturea1400
delusiona1513
disappointing1533
disappointment1577
disappoint1642
heart-scald1888
dust and ashes1902
1628 Z. Boyd Last Battell Soule 1266 What an heart-scald should this bee vnto us, that wee have so long neglected this best part.
?1774 ‘Brutus’ & ‘H. Search’ Ess., Hist., Polit. & Moral II. xlviii. 296 The people, seeing themselves bought and sold..by venal Judas's,..have got the heart-scald of patriotism.
1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel II. iii. 62 A look..that suld give her a heart-scald of walking on such errands.
1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Heart-scad, any thing disagreeable or contrary to your expectation or wishes.
1888 W. B. Yeats Fairy & Folk Tales 286 She'd get up late, eat her breakfast before she'd finish her prayers, and then go about dawdling... Many a heart-scald her poor mother got with her.
1922 McClure's Mag. Apr. 117/2 The separation from Sam..seemed unbearable... Added to this was the heart-scald of love's misunderstanding.
1978 M. McLaverty Coll. Short Stories 249 My boyo, but you're a heartscald. You'd some poor body's blessing about you when you weren't killed stone dead.
1996 F. McCourt Angela's Ashes i. 66 It's a heart scald to think Margaret might be in Limbo forever with no hope of her ever seeing the rest of us.
2. Now Orkney and Shetland. = heartburn n. 2.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > [noun] > indigestion
cardiac passiona1398
rawnessa1398
heartburnc1440
rawhead1440
heart-burningc1450
undigestionc1450
indigestion1495
crudeness1541
crudity1541
bradypepsy1605
predigestion1612
heart-scald1628
indigestiblenessa1631
dyspepsy1656
unconcoction1662
apepsy1678
incoction1684
soda1693
dyspepsia1706
cardialgia1710
1628 W. Struther Christian Observ. & Resol. 21 The heart-scald doeth not so vex the stomacke, as these impediments doe the Soule.
a1646 D. Wedderburn Vocabula (1685) 19 Cardialgia, the heart-scald.
1664 M. Mackaile Moffet-well 67 Here we cannot but inquire after the cause and cure of that common and troublesome distemper, vulgarly called the Heart-scade.
a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) 145 Tho' cholic or the heart-scad teaze us.
1775 J. Moncrief Tippermalluch's Receipts (ed. 2) 60 For pain, heart-scald, gnawing, and inflammation of the stomach, pain and biting of the mouth of the stomach.
1811 J. Sim Poems 67 Some breedin' women gaunts and fidges, The heart scad, and the toothick rages.
1922 J. Inkster Mansie's Röd 15 Aneugh to gee a body da herskit.
1929 H. Marwick Orkney Norn 68/2 Harsket, hasket, heartburn.
1999 J. J. Graham Shetland Dict. (rev. ed.) 37/2 Hertscad, heartburn.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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