chide
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Etymology edit
From Middle English chiden (“to chide, rebuke, disapprove, criticize; complain, grumble, dispute; argue, debate, dispute, quarrel”), from Old English ċīdan (“to chide, reprove, rebuke; blame, contend, strive, quarrel, complain”). Cognate with German kiden (“to sound”); Old High German kīdal (“wedge”).
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chide (third-person singular simple present chides, present participle chiding, simple past chid or chided or chode, past participle chid or chided or chidden)
- (transitive) To admonish in blame; to reproach angrily.
- c. 1594, William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona[1], act 2, scene 1:
- Valentine: Well, you’ll still be too forward.
Speed: And yet I was last chidden for being too slow.
- c. 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It[2], act 4, scene 3:
- Whiles you chid me, I did love;
How then might your prayers move!
- c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 24:
- I know too much: / I finde it, I; for when I ha liſt to ſleepe, / Mary, before your Ladiſhip I grant, / She puts her tongue alittle in her heart, / And chides with thinking.
- I know, [she talks] too much: / I find that, when I have desire to sleep. / Indeed, before your Ladyship I admit, / She keeps a little quiet, / And '''scolds''' me with her thoughts.
- 1920, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Thuvia, Maiden of Mars[3], HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2008:
- Then she had not chidden him for the use of that familiar salutation, nor did she chide him now, though she was promised to another.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find fault; to contend angrily.
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible[4], Genesis 31:36:
- And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?
- (transitive, intransitive) To make a clamorous noise; to chafe.
- c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1[5], act 3, scene 1:
- Where is he living, clipp’d in with the sea
That chides the banks of England, Scotland, Wales,
Which calls me pupil, or hath read to me?
- c. 1612, William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, Henry VIII[6], act 3, scene 2:
- […] though perils did
Abound, as thick as thought could make ’em, and
Appear in forms more horrid,—yet my duty,
As doth a rock against the chiding flood,
Should the approach of this wild river break,
And stand unshaken yours.
Synonyms edit
- See also Thesaurus:reprehend
Translations edit
loudly admonish
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