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scald

English

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Etymology 1

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From Middle English scalden, from Old Northern French escalder (cf. central Old French eschauder, eschalder), from Late Latin excaldāre (“bathe in hot water”), from ex- (“off, out”) +‎ cal(i)dus (“hot”).[1]

Verb

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scald (third-person singular simple present scalds, present participle scalding, simple past and past participle scalded)

  1. To burn with hot liquid.
    to scald the hand
    • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals), page vii, line 48:
      Mine own tears / Do scald like molten lead.
    • 1656, Abraham Cowley, Davideis:
      Here the blue flames of scalding brimstone fall.
    • 1943 March and April, “Notes and News: Southern Locomotive Destroys Raider”, in Railway Magazine, page 119:
      The fireman was scalded by steam, but he did not fare so badly as the enemy pilot, whose dead body was found on a bank about 100 yd. away from the train.
  2. (cooking) To heat almost to boiling.
    Scald the milk until little bubbles form.
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Noun

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scald (plural scalds)

  1. A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by hot liquid or steam.
  2. (Appalachia) Poor or bad land.
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Etymology 2

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Alteration of scall or scalled.

Noun

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scald (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Scaliness; a scabby skin disease.

Adjective

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scald (comparative more scald, superlative most scald)

  1. (obsolete) Affected with the scab; scabby.
  2. (obsolete) Paltry; worthless.
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Etymology 3

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Noun

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scald (plural scalds)

  1. Alternative form of skald
    • 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter I, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 28:
      The fire was spreading rapidly through all parts of the castle, when Ulrica, who had first kindled it, appeared on a turret, in the guise of one of the ancient furies, yelling forth a war-song, such as was of yore chaunted on the field of battle by the scalds of the yet heathen Saxons.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “scald”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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  1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “scald”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

See also

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  • scald-crow (possibly etymologically related to above)

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Romanian

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Verb

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scald

  1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of scălda

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from French scalde.

Noun

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scald m (plural scalzi)

  1. skald
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Declension of scald
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) scald scaldul (niște) scalzi scalzii
genitive/dative (unui) scald scaldului (unor) scalzi scalzilor
vocative scaldule scalzilor

Middle Scots

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Pronunciation

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  • (Early Scots) IPA(key): [skauld]
  • (Early Middle Scots) IPA(key): [skɑːld], [skaːld]
  • (Late Middle Scots) IPA(key): [skɑːld], [skaːld]

Etymology 1

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Inherited from Middle English scald, later spelling of scallede affected with the scall, contemptible.

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Adjective

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scald

  1. affected by a scabby disease of the skin or scalp
  2. scabby, passing into an expression of general opprobrium or revulsion, foul, filthy
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Etymology 2

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Inherited from Middle English scald, apparently obsolete after 1483, from Old Norse skáld (“poet”).

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Noun

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scald

  1. one given to the use of vituperation or abusive language
  2. one who by the use of such language causes public disturbance
  3. a foul-mouthed quarreller (applied to both men and women, but in the 17th century perh. increasingly to women.)

Etymology 3

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Possibly from English scald, first certified in 1601.

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Noun

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scald

  1. (possibly figuratively) a mark or blemish
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Etymology 4

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Inherited from Middle English schalde, from Old French eschalder (“to burn, scald”), from Late Latin excaldāre (“to wash in hot water”).

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Verb

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scald

  1. (transitive, of fire) to scorch or burn (also of the fire of Purgatory)
    1. (absolutive, reflexive) to burn (a person) by way of punishment
    2. (absolutive) to hurt by, or as by, the action of hot steam or liquid
  2. to affect (something) in a way comparable to the effect produced by the action of hot water or steam; to damage severely
    1. (of thoughts or cares) to inflame or irritate (a person, his or her mind)
  3. to cleanse, wash out or sterilise with boiling water
  4. (used only in proverbs) to cause (one's lips) to be scalded or burned by eating hot food (also with reflexive object.)
  5. (intransitive) to suffer the effects of excessive heat; to faint or swoon in consequence of (with) this; to shrivel up
    1. (figuratively) to burn with (in) strong emotion or desire
  6. to behave as if boiling, or about to boil; to froth; to bubble
  7. to set fire to property, etc.; to burn
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Etymology 5

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Inherited from Middle English scolden.

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scald

  1. (intransitive) to rail; to brawl; to quarrel noisily and in unseemly terms
  2. (transitive) to rebuke, chide
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