scoldn.

Brit.

/skəʊld/, U.S.

/skoʊld/

Forms: α. northern (now northern dialect and Scottish) Middle English, 1700s–1800s scald, Middle English–1500s skald, Middle English skawde, scawde, skalde, scalde, 1800s scauld, scaad. β. Middle English–1600s scolde, Middle English–1500s skolde, Middle English–1600s skold, 1500s schold, skould, 1500s–1600s scould, 1600s scowld, Middle English– scold. γ. northern1500s scolle, skol, scaule, scoule, 1700s scaul, scawl.

Origin: Apparently a borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymon: Norse skáld.

Etymology: Apparently < Old Norse skáld neuter (see skald n.), originally meaning a poet; the sense-development postulated is strange, but the probability of a sense ‘lampooner’ as an intermediate stage seems to be indicated by the fact that the derivative skáldskapr, lit. ‘skaldship’, poetry, has in the Icelandic law-books the specific sense of libel in verse.

a. In early use, a person (esp. a woman) of ribald speech; later, a woman (rarely a man) addicted to abusive language.In the example from Ormin, the sense may be ‘minstrel’.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > malediction > [noun] > one who swears or abuses > woman

scoldc1175

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > invective or abuse > [noun] > one who uses invective or abuse

scoldc1175

scolder1423

railer1513

reviler1517

stinger1552

disgracer1570

invectiver1596

inveighera1601

outrayer1602

blatant1610

vent-giver1611

invector1654

insectator1706

slangwhanger1807

vituperator1837

invectivist1862

clapperclawer1873

vituperant1889

society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [noun] > noisy or angry quarrel > one who

scoldc1175

brawler1377

chider1377

fliterc1440

wraggera1500

bargainer?a1513

wrangler?1518

brangler1611

scolder1673

fratcher1847

jangler1884

the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill-naturedness > ill nature in woman or shrewishness > [noun] > shrew

scoldc1175

shrewc1386

viragoc1386

scolder1423

common scold1467

wild cat1570

vixen1575

callet1577

termagant1578

(Long) Meg of Westminster1589

butter whore1592

cotquean1593

scrattop1593

scoldsterc1600

butter-quean1613

Xantippea1616

fury1620

Tartar1669

fish-woman1698

cross-patch1699

Whitechapel fortune1734

brimstone1751

randy1762

fish-fag1786

rantipole1790

skellata1810

skimmington1813

targer1822

skellat-bell1827

catamaran1834

nagster1873

yenta1923

α.

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 2192 Full wel birrþ ure maȝȝdenn ben. Forrshamedd ȝiff mann brinngeþ. Biforenn hire unnþæwfull word. & wælinng word þurrh scaldess.

a1300 Cursor Mundi 29342 Womman commun and alsua scald, Alle ar suilk for cursd tald.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 22030 Anticrist..sal be born..of bismer brem and bald, And geten of a glotun scald [Gött. of glotun and skald], þat þar mai be na fuler tuin.

c1400 Ywaine & Gaw. 69 He was of his tong a skalde, And for to boste was he ful balde.

1483 Cath. Angl. 322/1 A Scawde, barda, vt supra vbi scalde.

a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xiii. 151 Lett bren this bawde And bynd hir fast. A! fals skawde! Hang at the last So shall thou.

1508 W. Kennedy Flyting (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems W. Dunbar (1998) I. 211 And knaw, kene scald, I hald of Alathya.

1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Scald, a scold; applied to a person.

β. c1275 Prov. Ælfred 412 in Old Eng. Misc. 127 Be þu neuere to bold, to chiden agen oni scold.c1275 Prov. Ælfred 412 in Old Eng. Misc. 705 He is cocker, þef, and horeling, scolde, of wrechedome he is king.c1325 Poem temp. Edw. II (Percy) li As wel wol a knyȝt chide As eny scold in a toun.1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. xii. 34 And when scripture þe skolde hadde þus wyt y-sheued, Clergie in-to a caban crepte anon after.1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xix. 279 Ne sholde no scorner ne scolde oute of skyl hym brynge.c1450 Mirk's Festial 229 A claterer, a ianguler, a flyter, a curser, a swerer, and a skold of hur mowþe.a1529 J. Skelton Against Venemous Tongues in Wks. (1843) I. 132 A sclaunderous tunge, a tunge of a skolde, Worketh more mischiefe than can be tolde.1565 in F. J. Furnivall Child-marriages, Divorces, & Ratifications Diocese Chester (1897) 127 She takes her for no schold, nor an vnhonest woman.1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. iii. vi. f. 108/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I Scoldes are ducked vpon cuckingstooles in the water.a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) iii. sig. Gg3^v Miso interrupted his tale, with rayling at Damætas, with all those exquisite termes, which I was neuer good skolde inough to imagine.1611 Bible (King James) Ecclus. xxvi. 27 A loude crying woman, and a scolde, shall be sought out to driue away the enemies. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Causeresse, a scowld, a brabling woman.a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) i. ii. 186 I know she is an irkesome brawling scold . 1640 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. iv. 433 For leading scoldes bridled along the Town at Mr. Bayliffes commaund, 6d.1642 T. Fuller Holy State iii. xxiii. 218 Fame hath much of the scold in her; the best way to silence her is to be silent.1713 Ld. Shaftesbury Notion Hist. Draught Judgm. Hercules iii. 24 The Painter..will doubtless beware of representing his Heroine as a mere Scold.1783 H. Cowley Bold Stroke for Husband i. ii. 6 Every body supposes my lady an arrant scold.1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. (1907) II. xxiii. 206 The Prior was one of the many instances of a youthful sinner metamorphosed into an old scold.1842 C. G. F. Gore Fascination 15 ‘If you only manage to drink the wine I send to fetch for you,’ said the scold of a wife, ‘you won't be much the worse for it.’1863 P. Barry Dockyard Econ. 67 Too often he is under the dominion of a forbidding scold, who, in addition to her other bad qualities, is slovenly and unthrifty.γ. 1569 [see scold-cart n. at Compounds]. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Dii/2 A Scaule, rixosa mulier.1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Si/1 A Scoule. 1572 [see scold-cart n. at Compounds]. 1718 A. Ramsay Christ's-kirk on Green iii. 28 Ye's thole for this ye Scaul.1786 R. Burns Poems 61 His ill-tongu'd, wicked Scawl [sc. Job's wife].

b. common scold n. a woman who disturbs the peace of the neighbourhood by her constant scolding.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill-naturedness > ill nature in woman or shrewishness > [noun] > shrew

scoldc1175

shrewc1386

viragoc1386

scolder1423

common scold1467

wild cat1570

vixen1575

callet1577

termagant1578

(Long) Meg of Westminster1589

butter whore1592

cotquean1593

scrattop1593

scoldsterc1600

butter-quean1613

Xantippea1616

fury1620

Tartar1669

fish-woman1698

cross-patch1699

Whitechapel fortune1734

brimstone1751

randy1762

fish-fag1786

rantipole1790

skellata1810

skimmington1813

targer1822

skellat-bell1827

catamaran1834

nagster1873

yenta1923

society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [noun] > noisy or angry quarrel > one who > female

chidesterc1386

chideressc1400

scolder1423

common scold1467

termagant1578

scoldsterc1600

1467 Maldon (Essex) Court Rolls (Bundle 43, No. 1) Eadem Katerina est communis scolde.

1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 500 Lyke a common skold in a Cage.

1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. xiii. 169 A common scold, communis rixatrix, (for our law-latin confines it to the feminine gender,) is a public nusance to her neighbourhood.

1858 J. P. Bishop Comm. Crim. Law II. §147 A common scold is one, who, by the practice of frequent scolding, disturbs the repose of the neighborhood.

2. [ < the verb.] An act of scolding; a scolding rebuke. ? Obsolete exc. Scottish.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > [noun] > scolding > instance of

Kyrie15..

Kyrie eleison1528

chide1538

wormwood lecture1640

rant1663

scold1726

trimming1763

blowing up1772

set-to1774

set-down1780

ragging1788

scouting1794

hurl?a1800

hearing1816

heckling1832

twisting1834

downsetting1842

going-over1843

shrewing1847

call1862

tongue-lashing1881

tongue-walking1888

telling-off1893

rousting1900

lumps1935

fourpenny one1936

rucking1958

α.

a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) 162 The waefu' scald o' our Mess John to bide.

1831 R. Shennan Tales, Songs, & Misc. Poems 65 (E.D.D.) Whiles they got a skelp or scauld.

1871 W. Alexander Johnny Gibb iv. 33 Aw doot Gushetneuk cam' in for a bit scaad yon'er.

β. 1726 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 22 Apr. (1966) II. 63 Mama and I were in an actual scold when my poor Father expir'd.a1774 O. Goldsmith tr. P. Scarron Comic Romance (1775) II. xvi. 133 The Lady Abbess had already put him in an ill humour by the scold she gave him for overturning her.1778 S. Johnson Let. 31 Oct. (1992) III. 134 Today Mrs. Williams and Mrs. Desmoulins had a scold.1807 J. H. Williams Let. 28 Dec. in S. Parr Wks. (1828) VIII. 293 I should not have been so long in answering your sharp scold and soothing invitation had I not [etc.].1847 J. W. Carlyle Let. Dec. in New Lett. (1903) I. 237 I have not had to transact one scold since this girl came to me.1854 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters (1858) 91 His scold died out good naturedly enough in the end, and I saw him laugh as he turned away.1891 ‘L. Keith’ My Bonnie Lady ix. 93 Now that I've given you your scolds we'll say no more about it.

Compounds

scold's bit n. = branks n.¹ 1.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > punishment > public or popular punishments > [noun] > punishing by pillory or stocks > pillory or stocks > scold's bridle

branks1595

bridle1623

scold's bridle1858

tongue-tier1883

scold's bit1884

1884 Christian World 4 Sept. 661/5 Then came Walton, where the famous scold's bit is preserved in the church.

scold's bridle n. = branks n.¹ 1.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > punishment > public or popular punishments > [noun] > punishing by pillory or stocks > pillory or stocks > scold's bridle

branks1595

bridle1623

scold's bridle1858

tongue-tier1883

scold's bit1884

1858 T. N. Brushfield Obs. Punishm. 6 It has been called..a Brank, the Branks, a pair of Branks, the Scold's Bridle, Gossip's Bridle, and..[in 1623] ‘a Brydle for a curste queane’.

1869 C. H. Spurgeon John Ploughman's Talk vi. 45 In Walton Church..there is a brank or scold's bridle.

† scold-cart n. Obsolete a cart used for the public exposure of common scolds.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > [noun] > for exposure of scolds

scold-cart1569

scolding cart1629

1569 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1889) IV. 135 Mendyng of the scolle kart.

1572 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1889) IV. 145 Mendyng the skolcart.

1604 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1889) IV. 265 Wee desire we may haue a scould carte for scoulds, and to carye criples in.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

scoldv.

Brit.

/skəʊld/, U.S.

/skoʊld/

Forms: α. Middle English–1500s scolde, Middle English scoolde, Middle English–1500s skolde, 1500s scoulde, skowlde, scowde, skoolde, 1500s–1600s scould, 1600s scowlde, (1800s dialect scoud), 1500s– scold. β. northern and dialect1500s scaule, scoule, 1800s scall. γ. Scottish1700s scald, scauld.

Etymology: < scold n.Notwithstanding the close resemblance in form and meaning with the West Germanic strong verb Old Frisian skelda, Old Saxon sceldan (in a gloss), Dutch, Middle Low German schelden, Old High German sceltan (Middle High German, modern German schelten), there appears to be no etymological connection.

1. intransitive. †(a) Originally, to behave as a scold; to quarrel noisily, to brawl; to rail at or wrangle with some one; to use violent or unseemly language in vituperation; said chiefly of women. Obsolete. (b) Now with milder sense (partly as absolute use of sense 3): To use undignifed vehemence or persistence in reproof or fault-finding; colloquially often merely, to utter continuous reproof.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > malediction > [verb (intransitive)] > abuse, scold, or wrangle

chidec1175

to say or speak (a, no, etc.) villainy1303

scold1377

revilea1460

raila1470

fare1603

extirp1605

camp1606

callet1620

oblatrate1623

cample1628

objurgate1642

reprobate1698

slang1828

vituperate1856

to shoot one's mouth off1864

society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > quarrel [verb (intransitive)] > in noisy or angry manner

flitec900

chidec1000

strivec1290

scold1377

wrangle1377

jangle1382

brawlc1440

bickera1450

to have words1490

altercate1530

jar1550

brangle1553

brabble1568

yed1570

fraple?a1598

barrat1600

warble1600

camp1606

to word it1612

caterwaul1621

cample1628

pickeer1651

spar1698

fratch1714

rafflea1796

row1797

barney1850

dudgeon1859

frabble1885

scrap1895

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > rebuke or reprove [verb (intransitive)] > scold

scold1377

chide1393

channerc1480

ratea1529

chowre1567

flite1568

to scold it outa1592

to speak or look daggers1603

snub1694

to read the Riot Act1784

row1843

rouse1896

roust1901

to bust (a person's) balls1946

to bust on1961

α.

1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. ii. 81 To scorne and to scolde sclaundere to make.

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) vi. xiii. 197 Noo man hath more woo than he that hath an euyll wyfe, cryenge and janglynge, chydynge and skoldynge.

1526 W. Tyndale Prol. to N.T. Prol. A ij b Lest we..fall from meke lernynge into ydle despiciouns, braulinge and scoldynge aboute wordes.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 706/2 I scoulde, as a man or woman dothe that chyde, je tence... They scolde togyther lyke two women.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. clx^v Euery day almost they would bryng them furth openly, and scolde and chyde with them, & make them beleue that they woulde hang them if they were not payed.

1587 D. Fenner Def. Godlie Ministers sig. Gii Let him goe home and skoolde with his wife.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) i. i. 170 Mark'd you not how hir sister Began to scold, and raise vp such a storme, That mortal eares might hardly indure the din.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) v. vi. 107 Pardon me Lords, 'tis the first time that euer I was forc'd to scoul'd .

a1630 F. Moryson in Shakespeare's Europe (1903) ii. v. 239 Some runn out to braule and scowlde like women with the next Enemyes.

1673 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 265 I told her ‘I came to be merry and not to be scolded at’.

1675 V. Alsop Anti-Sozzo iii. 193 Therefore go scold with the Apostle: that which will bring him off will bring off the Doctor.

1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 120 I scolded heartily at him, when he came back.

1726 J. Swift Cadenus & Vanessa 15 For Gods, we are by Homer told, Can in Celestial Language scold.

1764 J. Wesley Jrnl. 21 June A woman had ‘scolded with her neighbour’.

1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 61 He might harp as long as he pleased upon her scolding; but she never scolded, except for his advantage.

1822 A. Cunningham Trad. Tales II. 320 All women love to be married, were it only for the sake of having somebody to scold at.

1833 T. Hook Parson's Daughter II. ii. 63 I have no doubt that Lady Frances will, at first, look grave and even perhaps scold, but it will wear off.

1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre I. iv. 64 I just put my two arms round her, and said, ‘Come, Bessie! don't scold.’

β. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Dii/2 To Scaule, rixari.1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Si/1 To Scoule.1820 J. Johnstone Poems 127 (E.D.D.) I'm sure that ye a' got a part o't, And needna scall oft sae at me.

2. quasi-transitive with adjective complement, adv., or phrase expressing the result of scolding. Also †to scold it out: to continue wrangling to the end.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > controversy, dispute, argument > argue about, dispute [verb (transitive)] > reach conclusion

to scold it outa1592

wrangle1616

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > rebuke or reprove [verb (intransitive)] > scold

scold1377

chide1393

channerc1480

ratea1529

chowre1567

flite1568

to scold it outa1592

to speak or look daggers1603

snub1694

to read the Riot Act1784

row1843

rouse1896

roust1901

to bust (a person's) balls1946

to bust on1961

society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > quarrel [verb (intransitive)] > in noisy or angry manner > to the end

to scold it outa1592

a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. H^v Stand on thy guard I cannot scold it out.

1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII v. i. 174 An hundred Markes? By this light, Ile ha more... I will haue more, or scold it out of him.

1650 N. Ward Discolliminium 10 Meer morall prudence might suffer wise men to stand still.., and such shallow heads as I am, to scould themselves quiet.

1655 J. Howell 4th Vol. Familiar Lett. vii. 18 She had scolded her Husband one day out of doores.

1754 W. Warburton View Bolingbroke's Philos.: Lett. 1st & 2nd i. 34 My Master is not a man to be scratched and scolded out of his Kingdom.

1783 W. Cowper Let. 17 June (1981) II. 145 No man was ever scolded out of his sins.

1887 R. N. Carey Uncle Max v. 42 I scolded back the foolish thoughts, and felt ashamed of myself for entertaining them.

3. transitive. To address (esp. an inferior or a child) with continuous and more or less angry reproach; to chide.This construction is probably of late introduction from northern dialects. Johnson does not mention it in his Dictionary (1755), though Boswell reports him as having used it orally in 1763. In the 19th cent. the use was still colloquial rather than literary, and its associations were somewhat undignified; but it is now quite free from the discreditable implications which the intransitive use (sense 1) has not yet wholly lost.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > rebuke or reprove [verb (transitive)] > scold

chidec1230

ban1340

tongue1388

rate1393

flite14..

rehetec1400

janglec1430

chafec1485

rattle1542

berate1548

quarrel1587

hazen?1608

bequarrel1624

huff1674

shrewa1687

to claw away, off1692

tongue-pad1707

to blow up1710

scold1718

rag1739

redd1776

bullyraga1790

jaw1810

targe1825

haze1829

overhaul1840

tongue-walk1841

trim1882

to call down1883

tongue-lash1887

roar1917

to go off at (a person)1941

chew1948

wrinch2009

1718 A. Ramsay Christ's-kirk on Green ii. 22 Auld Nick, Shou'd tempt their Wives to scald Them for't.

1763 S. Johnson in Boswell Life Johnson (1831) I. 418 You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you cannot make a table.

1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 213 She has left off scolding the servants.

1781 W. Cowper On Madan's Answer Newton 12 But the strife is the strangest that ever was known, If a man must be scolded for loving his own [wife].

1832 E. Bulwer-Lytton Eugene Aram I. i. v. 88 Well, Walter,..I feel, for the first time in these ten years, I have a right to scold you.

1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lxi. 551 She scolds the servants from morning till night.

1865 D. Livingstone & C. Livingstone Narr. Exped. Zambesi xix. 398 The headman scolded the fellow for his meanness.

1889 M. Oliphant Poor Gentleman III. xlii. 173 She scolded Anne,..but so softly that Anne fell asleep in the middle of the little lecture.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	scold
释义	scoldn. Brit. /skəʊld/, U.S. /skoʊld/ Forms: α. northern (now northern dialect and Scottish) Middle English, 1700s–1800s scald, Middle English–1500s skald, Middle English skawde, scawde, skalde, scalde, 1800s scauld, scaad. β. Middle English–1600s scolde, Middle English–1500s skolde, Middle English–1600s skold, 1500s schold, skould, 1500s–1600s scould, 1600s scowld, Middle English– scold. γ. northern1500s scolle, skol, scaule, scoule, 1700s scaul, scawl. Origin: Apparently a borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymon: Norse skáld. Etymology: Apparently < Old Norse skáld neuter (see skald n.), originally meaning a poet; the sense-development postulated is strange, but the probability of a sense ‘lampooner’ as an intermediate stage seems to be indicated by the fact that the derivative skáldskapr, lit. ‘skaldship’, poetry, has in the Icelandic law-books the specific sense of libel in verse. 1. a. In early use, a person (esp. a woman) of ribald speech; later, a woman (rarely a man) addicted to abusive language.In the example from Ormin, the sense may be ‘minstrel’. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > malediction > [noun] > one who swears or abuses > woman scoldc1175 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > invective or abuse > [noun] > one who uses invective or abuse scoldc1175 scolder1423 railer1513 reviler1517 stinger1552 disgracer1570 invectiver1596 inveighera1601 outrayer1602 blatant1610 vent-giver1611 invector1654 insectator1706 slangwhanger1807 vituperator1837 invectivist1862 clapperclawer1873 vituperant1889 society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [noun] > noisy or angry quarrel > one who scoldc1175 brawler1377 chider1377 fliterc1440 wraggera1500 bargainer?a1513 wrangler?1518 brangler1611 scolder1673 fratcher1847 jangler1884 the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill-naturedness > ill nature in woman or shrewishness > [noun] > shrew scoldc1175 shrewc1386 viragoc1386 scolder1423 common scold1467 wild cat1570 vixen1575 callet1577 termagant1578 (Long) Meg of Westminster1589 butter whore1592 cotquean1593 scrattop1593 scoldsterc1600 butter-quean1613 Xantippea1616 fury1620 Tartar1669 fish-woman1698 cross-patch1699 Whitechapel fortune1734 brimstone1751 randy1762 fish-fag1786 rantipole1790 skellata1810 skimmington1813 targer1822 skellat-bell1827 catamaran1834 nagster1873 yenta1923 α. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 2192 Full wel birrþ ure maȝȝdenn ben. Forrshamedd ȝiff mann brinngeþ. Biforenn hire unnþæwfull word. & wælinng word þurrh scaldess. a1300 Cursor Mundi 29342 Womman commun and alsua scald, Alle ar suilk for cursd tald. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 22030 Anticrist..sal be born..of bismer brem and bald, And geten of a glotun scald [Gött. of glotun and skald], þat þar mai be na fuler tuin. c1400 Ywaine & Gaw. 69 He was of his tong a skalde, And for to boste was he ful balde. 1483 Cath. Angl. 322/1 A Scawde, barda, vt supra vbi scalde. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xiii. 151 Lett bren this bawde And bynd hir fast. A! fals skawde! Hang at the last So shall thou. 1508 W. Kennedy Flyting (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems W. Dunbar (1998) I. 211 And knaw, kene scald, I hald of Alathya. 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Scald, a scold; applied to a person. β. c1275 Prov. Ælfred 412 in Old Eng. Misc. 127 Be þu neuere to bold, to chiden agen oni scold.c1275 Prov. Ælfred 412 in Old Eng. Misc. 705 He is cocker, þef, and horeling, scolde, of wrechedome he is king.c1325 Poem temp. Edw. II (Percy) li As wel wol a knyȝt chide As eny scold in a toun.1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. xii. 34 And when scripture þe skolde hadde þus wyt y-sheued, Clergie in-to a caban crepte anon after.1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xix. 279 Ne sholde no scorner ne scolde oute of skyl hym brynge.c1450 Mirk's Festial 229 A claterer, a ianguler, a flyter, a curser, a swerer, and a skold of hur mowþe.a1529 J. Skelton Against Venemous Tongues in Wks. (1843) I. 132 A sclaunderous tunge, a tunge of a skolde, Worketh more mischiefe than can be tolde.1565 in F. J. Furnivall Child-marriages, Divorces, & Ratifications Diocese Chester (1897) 127 She takes her for no schold, nor an vnhonest woman.1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. iii. vi. f. 108/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I Scoldes are ducked vpon cuckingstooles in the water.a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) iii. sig. Gg3^v Miso interrupted his tale, with rayling at Damætas, with all those exquisite termes, which I was neuer good skolde inough to imagine.1611 Bible (King James) Ecclus. xxvi. 27 A loude crying woman, and a scolde, shall be sought out to driue away the enemies. View more context for this quotation1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Causeresse, a scowld, a brabling woman.a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) i. ii. 186 I know she is an irkesome brawling scold . View more context for this quotation1640 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. iv. 433 For leading scoldes bridled along the Town at Mr. Bayliffes commaund, 6d.1642 T. Fuller Holy State iii. xxiii. 218 Fame hath much of the scold in her; the best way to silence her is to be silent.1713 Ld. Shaftesbury Notion Hist. Draught Judgm. Hercules iii. 24 The Painter..will doubtless beware of representing his Heroine as a mere Scold.1783 H. Cowley Bold Stroke for Husband i. ii. 6 Every body supposes my lady an arrant scold.1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. (1907) II. xxiii. 206 The Prior was one of the many instances of a youthful sinner metamorphosed into an old scold.1842 C. G. F. Gore Fascination 15 ‘If you only manage to drink the wine I send to fetch for you,’ said the scold of a wife, ‘you won't be much the worse for it.’1863 P. Barry Dockyard Econ. 67 Too often he is under the dominion of a forbidding scold, who, in addition to her other bad qualities, is slovenly and unthrifty.γ. 1569 [see scold-cart n. at Compounds]. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Dii/2 A Scaule, rixosa mulier.1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Si/1 A Scoule. 1572 [see scold-cart n. at Compounds]. 1718 A. Ramsay Christ's-kirk on Green iii. 28 Ye's thole for this ye Scaul.1786 R. Burns Poems 61 His ill-tongu'd, wicked Scawl [sc. Job's wife]. b. common scold n. a woman who disturbs the peace of the neighbourhood by her constant scolding. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill-naturedness > ill nature in woman or shrewishness > [noun] > shrew scoldc1175 shrewc1386 viragoc1386 scolder1423 common scold1467 wild cat1570 vixen1575 callet1577 termagant1578 (Long) Meg of Westminster1589 butter whore1592 cotquean1593 scrattop1593 scoldsterc1600 butter-quean1613 Xantippea1616 fury1620 Tartar1669 fish-woman1698 cross-patch1699 Whitechapel fortune1734 brimstone1751 randy1762 fish-fag1786 rantipole1790 skellata1810 skimmington1813 targer1822 skellat-bell1827 catamaran1834 nagster1873 yenta1923 society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [noun] > noisy or angry quarrel > one who > female chidesterc1386 chideressc1400 scolder1423 common scold1467 termagant1578 scoldsterc1600 1467 Maldon (Essex) Court Rolls (Bundle 43, No. 1) Eadem Katerina est communis scolde. 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 500 Lyke a common skold in a Cage. 1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. xiii. 169 A common scold, communis rixatrix, (for our law-latin confines it to the feminine gender,) is a public nusance to her neighbourhood. 1858 J. P. Bishop Comm. Crim. Law II. §147 A common scold is one, who, by the practice of frequent scolding, disturbs the repose of the neighborhood. 2. [ < the verb.] An act of scolding; a scolding rebuke. ? Obsolete exc. Scottish. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > [noun] > scolding > instance of Kyrie15.. Kyrie eleison1528 chide1538 wormwood lecture1640 rant1663 scold1726 trimming1763 blowing up1772 set-to1774 set-down1780 ragging1788 scouting1794 hurl?a1800 hearing1816 heckling1832 twisting1834 downsetting1842 going-over1843 shrewing1847 call1862 tongue-lashing1881 tongue-walking1888 telling-off1893 rousting1900 lumps1935 fourpenny one1936 rucking1958 α. a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) 162 The waefu' scald o' our Mess John to bide. 1831 R. Shennan Tales, Songs, & Misc. Poems 65 (E.D.D.) Whiles they got a skelp or scauld. 1871 W. Alexander Johnny Gibb iv. 33 Aw doot Gushetneuk cam' in for a bit scaad yon'er. β. 1726 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 22 Apr. (1966) II. 63 Mama and I were in an actual scold when my poor Father expir'd.a1774 O. Goldsmith tr. P. Scarron Comic Romance (1775) II. xvi. 133 The Lady Abbess had already put him in an ill humour by the scold she gave him for overturning her.1778 S. Johnson Let. 31 Oct. (1992) III. 134 Today Mrs. Williams and Mrs. Desmoulins had a scold.1807 J. H. Williams Let. 28 Dec. in S. Parr Wks. (1828) VIII. 293 I should not have been so long in answering your sharp scold and soothing invitation had I not [etc.].1847 J. W. Carlyle Let. Dec. in New Lett. (1903) I. 237 I have not had to transact one scold since this girl came to me.1854 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters (1858) 91 His scold died out good naturedly enough in the end, and I saw him laugh as he turned away.1891 ‘L. Keith’ My Bonnie Lady ix. 93 Now that I've given you your scolds we'll say no more about it. Compounds scold's bit n. = branks n.¹ 1. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > public or popular punishments > [noun] > punishing by pillory or stocks > pillory or stocks > scold's bridle branks1595 bridle1623 scold's bridle1858 tongue-tier1883 scold's bit1884 1884 Christian World 4 Sept. 661/5 Then came Walton, where the famous scold's bit is preserved in the church. scold's bridle n. = branks n.¹ 1. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > public or popular punishments > [noun] > punishing by pillory or stocks > pillory or stocks > scold's bridle branks1595 bridle1623 scold's bridle1858 tongue-tier1883 scold's bit1884 1858 T. N. Brushfield Obs. Punishm. 6 It has been called..a Brank, the Branks, a pair of Branks, the Scold's Bridle, Gossip's Bridle, and..[in 1623] ‘a Brydle for a curste queane’. 1869 C. H. Spurgeon John Ploughman's Talk vi. 45 In Walton Church..there is a brank or scold's bridle. † scold-cart n. Obsolete a cart used for the public exposure of common scolds. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > [noun] > for exposure of scolds scold-cart1569 scolding cart1629 1569 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1889) IV. 135 Mendyng of the scolle kart. 1572 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1889) IV. 145 Mendyng the skolcart. 1604 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1889) IV. 265 Wee desire we may haue a scould carte for scoulds, and to carye criples in. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). scoldv. Brit. /skəʊld/, U.S. /skoʊld/ Forms: α. Middle English–1500s scolde, Middle English scoolde, Middle English–1500s skolde, 1500s scoulde, skowlde, scowde, skoolde, 1500s–1600s scould, 1600s scowlde, (1800s dialect scoud), 1500s– scold. β. northern and dialect1500s scaule, scoule, 1800s scall. γ. Scottish1700s scald, scauld. Etymology: < scold n.Notwithstanding the close resemblance in form and meaning with the West Germanic strong verb Old Frisian skelda, Old Saxon sceldan (in a gloss), Dutch, Middle Low German schelden, Old High German sceltan (Middle High German, modern German schelten), there appears to be no etymological connection. 1. intransitive. †(a) Originally, to behave as a scold; to quarrel noisily, to brawl; to rail at or wrangle with some one; to use violent or unseemly language in vituperation; said chiefly of women. Obsolete. (b) Now with milder sense (partly as absolute use of sense 3): To use undignifed vehemence or persistence in reproof or fault-finding; colloquially often merely, to utter continuous reproof. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > malediction > [verb (intransitive)] > abuse, scold, or wrangle chidec1175 to say or speak (a, no, etc.) villainy1303 scold1377 revilea1460 raila1470 fare1603 extirp1605 camp1606 callet1620 oblatrate1623 cample1628 objurgate1642 reprobate1698 slang1828 vituperate1856 to shoot one's mouth off1864 society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > quarrel [verb (intransitive)] > in noisy or angry manner flitec900 chidec1000 strivec1290 scold1377 wrangle1377 jangle1382 brawlc1440 bickera1450 to have words1490 altercate1530 jar1550 brangle1553 brabble1568 yed1570 fraple?a1598 barrat1600 warble1600 camp1606 to word it1612 caterwaul1621 cample1628 pickeer1651 spar1698 fratch1714 rafflea1796 row1797 barney1850 dudgeon1859 frabble1885 scrap1895 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > rebuke or reprove [verb (intransitive)] > scold scold1377 chide1393 channerc1480 ratea1529 chowre1567 flite1568 to scold it outa1592 to speak or look daggers1603 snub1694 to read the Riot Act1784 row1843 rouse1896 roust1901 to bust (a person's) balls1946 to bust on1961 α. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. ii. 81 To scorne and to scolde sclaundere to make. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) vi. xiii. 197 Noo man hath more woo than he that hath an euyll wyfe, cryenge and janglynge, chydynge and skoldynge. 1526 W. Tyndale Prol. to N.T. Prol. A ij b Lest we..fall from meke lernynge into ydle despiciouns, braulinge and scoldynge aboute wordes. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 706/2 I scoulde, as a man or woman dothe that chyde, je tence... They scolde togyther lyke two women. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. clx^v Euery day almost they would bryng them furth openly, and scolde and chyde with them, & make them beleue that they woulde hang them if they were not payed. 1587 D. Fenner Def. Godlie Ministers sig. Gii Let him goe home and skoolde with his wife. a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) i. i. 170 Mark'd you not how hir sister Began to scold, and raise vp such a storme, That mortal eares might hardly indure the din. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) v. vi. 107 Pardon me Lords, 'tis the first time that euer I was forc'd to scoul'd . View more context for this quotation a1630 F. Moryson in Shakespeare's Europe (1903) ii. v. 239 Some runn out to braule and scowlde like women with the next Enemyes. 1673 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 265 I told her ‘I came to be merry and not to be scolded at’. 1675 V. Alsop Anti-Sozzo iii. 193 Therefore go scold with the Apostle: that which will bring him off will bring off the Doctor. 1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 120 I scolded heartily at him, when he came back. 1726 J. Swift Cadenus & Vanessa 15 For Gods, we are by Homer told, Can in Celestial Language scold. 1764 J. Wesley Jrnl. 21 June A woman had ‘scolded with her neighbour’. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 61 He might harp as long as he pleased upon her scolding; but she never scolded, except for his advantage. 1822 A. Cunningham Trad. Tales II. 320 All women love to be married, were it only for the sake of having somebody to scold at. 1833 T. Hook Parson's Daughter II. ii. 63 I have no doubt that Lady Frances will, at first, look grave and even perhaps scold, but it will wear off. 1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre I. iv. 64 I just put my two arms round her, and said, ‘Come, Bessie! don't scold.’ β. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Dii/2 To Scaule, rixari.1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Si/1 To Scoule.1820 J. Johnstone Poems 127 (E.D.D.) I'm sure that ye a' got a part o't, And needna scall oft sae at me. 2. quasi-transitive with adjective complement, adv., or phrase expressing the result of scolding. Also †to scold it out: to continue wrangling to the end. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > controversy, dispute, argument > argue about, dispute [verb (transitive)] > reach conclusion to scold it outa1592 wrangle1616 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > rebuke or reprove [verb (intransitive)] > scold scold1377 chide1393 channerc1480 ratea1529 chowre1567 flite1568 to scold it outa1592 to speak or look daggers1603 snub1694 to read the Riot Act1784 row1843 rouse1896 roust1901 to bust (a person's) balls1946 to bust on1961 society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > quarrel [verb (intransitive)] > in noisy or angry manner > to the end to scold it outa1592 a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. H^v Stand on thy guard I cannot scold it out. 1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII v. i. 174 An hundred Markes? By this light, Ile ha more... I will haue more, or scold it out of him. View more context for this quotation 1650 N. Ward Discolliminium 10 Meer morall prudence might suffer wise men to stand still.., and such shallow heads as I am, to scould themselves quiet. 1655 J. Howell 4th Vol. Familiar Lett. vii. 18 She had scolded her Husband one day out of doores. 1754 W. Warburton View Bolingbroke's Philos.: Lett. 1st & 2nd i. 34 My Master is not a man to be scratched and scolded out of his Kingdom. 1783 W. Cowper Let. 17 June (1981) II. 145 No man was ever scolded out of his sins. 1887 R. N. Carey Uncle Max v. 42 I scolded back the foolish thoughts, and felt ashamed of myself for entertaining them. 3. transitive. To address (esp. an inferior or a child) with continuous and more or less angry reproach; to chide.This construction is probably of late introduction from northern dialects. Johnson does not mention it in his Dictionary (1755), though Boswell reports him as having used it orally in 1763. In the 19th cent. the use was still colloquial rather than literary, and its associations were somewhat undignified; but it is now quite free from the discreditable implications which the intransitive use (sense 1) has not yet wholly lost. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > rebuke or reprove [verb (transitive)] > scold chidec1230 ban1340 tongue1388 rate1393 flite14.. rehetec1400 janglec1430 chafec1485 rattle1542 berate1548 quarrel1587 hazen?1608 bequarrel1624 huff1674 shrewa1687 to claw away, off1692 tongue-pad1707 to blow up1710 scold1718 rag1739 redd1776 bullyraga1790 jaw1810 targe1825 haze1829 overhaul1840 tongue-walk1841 trim1882 to call down1883 tongue-lash1887 roar1917 to go off at (a person)1941 chew1948 wrinch2009 1718 A. Ramsay Christ's-kirk on Green ii. 22 Auld Nick, Shou'd tempt their Wives to scald Them for't. 1763 S. Johnson in Boswell Life Johnson (1831) I. 418 You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you cannot make a table. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 213 She has left off scolding the servants. 1781 W. Cowper On Madan's Answer Newton 12 But the strife is the strangest that ever was known, If a man must be scolded for loving his own [wife]. 1832 E. Bulwer-Lytton Eugene Aram I. i. v. 88 Well, Walter,..I feel, for the first time in these ten years, I have a right to scold you. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lxi. 551 She scolds the servants from morning till night. 1865 D. Livingstone & C. Livingstone Narr. Exped. Zambesi xix. 398 The headman scolded the fellow for his meanness. 1889 M. Oliphant Poor Gentleman III. xlii. 173 She scolded Anne,..but so softly that Anne fell asleep in the middle of the little lecture. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1175v.1377
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