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Definitions and meaning of scald

scald

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /skɔld/; (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /skɑld/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /skɔːld/, /skɒld/
• Rhymes: -ɔːld
• Homophone: skald

Etymology 1

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

Verb

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

1. To burn with hot liquid.
2. (cooking) To heat almost to boiling.

Translations

Noun

scald (plural scalds)

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

Translations

Etymology 2

Alteration of scall or scalled.

Noun

scald (uncountable)

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

Adjective

scald (comparative more scald, superlative most scald)

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

Synonyms

• (scabby): roynish, scurvy; see also Thesaurus:scabby
• (paltry): contemptible, miserable, trashy; see also Thesaurus:despicable

Etymology 3

Noun

scald (plural scalds)

1. Alternative form of skald

References

See also

• scald-crow (possibly etymologically related to above)

Anagrams

• DACLs, S.D. Cal., clads

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [skald]

Etymology 1

Verb

scald

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

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French scalde.

Noun

scald m (plural scalzi)

1. skald

Declension

Scots

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

• skade, scaid, skaid, scad, skald, scauld

Adjective

scald (not comparable)

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

Derived terms

Etymology 2

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

Alternative forms

• scauld, skaul, scall, skold

Noun

scald (plural scaldis)

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

Etymology 3

Possibly from English scald, first certified in 1601.

Alternative forms

• skaid, scad

Noun

scald (plural scaldis)

1. (Middle Scots, possibly figuratively) a mark or blemish

Derived terms

• hartskaid
• hart-scald

Etymology 4

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

Alternative forms

• skad, scade, skaid, schald, scawde, skaude, scall, scad, skald

Verb

scald (third-person singular simple present scaldis, present participle scaldyng, simple past scaldit/scalded, past participle scaldit/scalded)

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

Conjugation

Etymology 5

Inherited from Middle English scolden.

Alternative forms

• skald, scold, skauld, skall

Verb

scald (third-person singular simple present scaldis, present participle scaldyng, simple past scaldit/scalded, past participle scaldit/scalded)

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

Conjugation

Further reading

• “scald” in Scots Dictionary