Scold

Definitions: Scold

Scold

Noun

1. Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault.

Verb

1. Censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup"; "check" is archaic.

2. Show one's unhappiness or critical attitude; "He scolded about anything that he thought was wrong"; "We grumbled about the increased work load".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "scold" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Multilingual Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Scold

Disapprobation

Execrate; exprobate, speak daggers, vituperate; abuse, abuse like a pickpocket; scold, rate, objurgate, upbraid, fall foul of; jaw; rail, rail at, rail in good set terms; bark at; anathematize, call names; call by hard names, call by ugly names; avile, revile; vilify, vilipend; bespatter; backbite; clapperclaw; rave against, thunder against, fulminate against; load with reproaches.

Irascibility

Sir Fretful Plagiary; brabbler, Tartar; shrew, vixen, virago, termagant, dragon, scold, Xantippe; porcupine; spitfire; fire eater; (blusterer); fury; (violent person).

Malediction

Execrate, beshrew, scold; anathematize; (censure); bold up to execration, denounce, proscribe, excommunicate, fulminate, thunder against; threaten.

Crosswords: Scold

If you don't scold and dominate us We will never give you cause to hate us We won't hide your spectacles so you can't see Put toads in your bed or pepper in your tea. (Mary Poppins; writing credit: P.L. Travers; Bill Walsh)

Her daddy don't have to scold her ("Sweet Little Rock'n'Roller"; performing artist: Chuck Berry)

To hold me, to scold me, ("LAST DANCE"; performing artist: DONNA SUMMER)

When Wrong, Will You Scold Me ("Will You Be There"; performing artist: Michael Jackson)

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Books

• A cure for a scold, 1735 (reference)

• An Uncommon Scold (reference)

• Bought and Scold (reference)

• The Town Scold (reference)

  (more book examples)

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The town scold : sonnet.Credit: Library of Congress.

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Which was true to some extent, for she thought that the Thenardiess would scold and beat her.

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Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "scold": Common scold. Additional references.

Afrikaan

berispe (blame, rebuke, reproach, reprove), beknor (blame, rebuke, reproach, reprove), aanmaan (admonish). (various references)

Albanian

shaj (abuse, ballyrag, berate, bullyrag, call names, carpet, castigate, chastise, chide, come down on, curse, dish it out, dress down, flay, inveigh, jaw, lay into, objurgate, offend, rag, rap, revile, shake up, shout, shout at, swear, tell off, trounce, upbraid, vituperate), qortoj (admonish, berate, call down, carpet, castigate, chide, come down on, correct, damn, decry, discommend, dish it out, knock, lecture, light into, Peck, pull up, rap, rebuke, reprehend, reproach, reprove, take to task, tell off, trim, twit, upbraid), i heq veshin, hungëroj (growl, grunt, snarl), grua gërnjare (shrew). (various references)

Arabic 

‏وبخ (berate, blame, carpet, castigate, check, chide, dish up, dress down, jaw, lash, moralize, quarrel, rail, raspberry, rebuff, rebuke, reprehend, reproach, reprove, scotch, show up, slag, slate, snub, strafe, take to task, take up, task, tell off, tick off, tickle, upbraid), ‏عنف (blow up, check, chide, convulse, expostulate, fierceness, force, heating, impetuosity, rant, rebuke, roughness, rowdyism, rudeness, smarten, thuggery, vehemence, violence, whip off), ‏امرأة سليطة, ‏أنب (castigate, get it in the neck, lash, moralize, reprimand, reproach, reprove, task). (various references)

Bulgarian 

хокам (rag, rake, rate, revile, tick off, vituperate), карам се (altercate, brabble, brawl, call down, disagree, jangle, quarrel, row, spat, squabble, wrangle), кавгаджийка (virago, vixen), гълча (chide), мъмря (call down, caution, correct, lecture, lesson, objurgate, rap, rebuke, reprimand, school). (various references)

Chinese 

責罵 , 詰 (investigate, restrain), 詈 (curse), 责骂 (Chide, chiding, Scolded, scolding, tongued, Tonguing), 譴 (punishment), 罵 (abuse), 噌 (bass). (various references)

Czech

plísnit koho, nadávat (abuse, berate, call names, curse, grumble, revile, storm, swear), hašteřivá žena. (various references)

Danish

dadle (rebuke, reproach, reprove). (various references)

Dutch

vermanen (admonish), manen (admonish, dun, dun for payment, mane), aansporen (abet, admonish, encourage, impel, instigate, rouse, spur on, stimulate, stir up, urge), aanmanen (admonish, dun, dun for payment). (various references)

Esperanto

skoldi (rebuke, reproach, reprove), riproĉi (blame, rebuke, reproach, reprove), mallaŭdi (rebuke, reproach, reprove), admoni (admonish). (various references)

Faeroese

studla (admonish, advance, suggest), mæla til (admonish), deila (divide, rebuke, reproach, reprove, separate, share). (various references)

Farsi 

چوبکاری کردن , سرزنش کردن (Berate, Blame, Calldown, Censure, Check, Chide, Haze, Rant, Reprehend, Reprimand, Reprove, Snub, Taunt, Trounce, Twit, Upbraid, Wig), زن غرولندو, ادم بددهان , بدحرفی کردن . (various references)

Finnish

moittia (blame, criticize, find fault with, rebuke, reproach, reprove), kehottaa (admonish, advise encourage, persuade, prompting, tell, to prompt, urge). (various references)

French

sommer, réprimander (scotch), gronder, admonester. (various references)

Frisian

oanmoanje (admonish), ferwite (blame, rebuke, reproach, reprove). (various references)

German

schelten (abuse, blame, chide, curse, insult, offend, rebuke, reproach, reprove, tell off, to scold), ausschimpfen (bawl out, call down, tell off, tick off, ticking off, to scold). (various references)

Greek 

κατσαδιάζω (carpet, come down on, rebuke, strafe, take to task, tell off, tick off), στρίγκλα (harpy, maenad, termagant), μαλώνω (argue about / over, bawl, berate, chide, chide smb., jaw, lambaste, scuffle, take to task, wig, yawp), φιλόνικη γυναίκα (termagant), φιλόψογη γυναίκα, επιπλήττω (admonish, berate, castigate, check, lecture, objervate, objurgate, rate, rebuke, reprehend, reprove, take to task). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"בר קשות (rebuke), ל�'עור (curse, rebuke, reprehend, reproach, reproof, reprove, tell off), ל� זוף (admonish, chide, dress down, flay, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reprove, slate, take to task, upbraid). (various references)

Hungarian

házsártos (cranky, cross-grained, frumpish, grousing, gruff, pugnacious, quarrelsome, rambunctious, shrewd, shrewish, termagant, vixenish). (various references)

Icelandic

átelja (blame, rebuke, reproach, reprove). (various references)

Indonesian

orang yang cerewet, mendamprat (tell off, verbally abuse), mencomeli (rebuke, reprimand), gebos (snap at). (various references)

Italian

sgridare (bawl out, chide, rebuke), riprendere (begin again, blame, catch again, get back, rebuke, recover, recrudesce, regain, renew, reopen, reprehend, reproach, reprove, resume, shoot, start again, tell off). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

詰る (to rebuke, to scold, to tell off), 絞り上�'る (to scold, to squeeze, to strain one's voice, to wring), 搾り上�'る (to scold, to squeeze, to strain one's voice, to wring), 決めつける (to scold, to taketo task), 決め付ける (to scold, to taketo task), 叱りつける (to rebuke, to scold harshly), 叱り付ける (to rebuke, to scold harshly), 叱る (to scold). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

なじる (to rebuke, to scold, to tell off), しぼりあ�'る (to scold, to squeeze, to strain one's voice, to wring), しかりつける (to rebuke, to scold harshly), しかる (a certain, a particular, to scold), きめつける (to scold, to taketo task). (various references)

Korean 

꾸지람하십시�". (various references)

Manx

troiddey (altercate, altercation, berate, bicker, chide, chiding, dress down, dressing down, jaw, jaw scolding, mud-slinging, nag, nagging, objurgate, objurgation, quarrel, quarrelling, rate, row; squabbling, scolding, set to, squabble, telling off, wigging), sheebey (accumulation, blow about, blowing, drift, drive, gust, sandbank on land), postyr (bully), cur da (allow expenses, append, beat up, belabour, clock, contribute, enhance, etc, give over, hammer, hit, lash, pass over; article to trade, thrash). (various references)

Norwegian

dadle (rebuke, reproach, reprove). (various references)

Papiamen

reprochá (blame, rebuke, reproach, reprove). (various references)

Pig Latin

oldscay

Portuguese

repreender (admonish, berate, bounce, carpet, censure, correct, find loopholes, jaw vice, lecturer, lessor, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reprove, sermonize, snub, take to task, tell off, twit, upbraid, vituperate), censurar (admonish, animadvert, berate, blame, carp, censor, censoring, censure, chide, condemn, damn, deprecate, expostulate, find fault with, glossal, impeach, inculpation, inveigh, jaw, land on, lecture, lesson, Nicaragua, objurgate, quarrel, rebuke, red pencil, reprehend, reproach, reprove, sermonize, snub, twit, upbraid, vituperate). (various references)

Romanian

sfãdi (remonstrate, reprimand), viespe (hornet, shrew, termagant, vixen), paceaurã (duster, sloven), mustra (berate, chide, lash into, rebuke, remonstrate, reprehend, reprimand, reprove, row, slate, snub, twit), femeie gâlcevitoare, drãcoaicã (She-devil), dojeni (blame, chide, correct, rebuke, remonstrate, reprehend, reprimand, reprove, snub, taunt, trim, twit, upbraid, wig), ciondãni (Bicker, chide, wrangle), certa (abuse, altercate, berate, blame, brawl, censure, chide, rag, rebuke, reprehend, reprove, row, squabble, taunt), caţã (gossip, termagant), cârti (blaspheme, grumble, kick, niggle, slander), bombãni (croak, growl, grumble, mutter, niggle), beşteli (abuse), admonesta (admonish, reprimand). (various references)

Russian 

ругать (abuse, berate, drub, rail, swear, whip). (various references)

Scottish

c� in (a fine, a tax, rent, revile, tax, tribute, white: from Latin ca@-nus). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zakerati (carp, crab, nag, nibble), zakeralo (carper, faultfinder, nag, nagger), ukoriti (lecture, objurgate, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reprove), izgrditi (berate, chastise, dress down, give it to him, lambaste, rip, scathe, snub, tell off, vituperate), grditi (abuse, rail, revile). (various references)

Spanish

requerir (admonish, call for, want), exhortar (admonish, exhort), reprobar (animadvert, blame, condemn, disapprove, disapprove of, lash out, rebuke, reproach, reprobate, reprove), reprender (blame, censure, chide, dress down, objurgate, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reprove, take to task), desaprobar (condemn, criticize, deprecate, disapprove, disapprove of, discountenance, discourage, dispraise, frown, negative, rebuke, reproach, reprove), censurar (animadvert, blame, blue pencil, censor, censure, condemn, criticize, decry, deprecate, dispraise, impeach, rebuke, reproach, reprove, take up, talk down, talk out, talk through, view). (various references)

Swedish

gräla på (chide). (various references)

Thai

�"ุว่า (kvetch, squawk). (various references)

Turkish

azarlamak (admonish, baste, bawl out, berate, blame, blister, blow up, bring up, call down, call smb. over the coals, carpet, castigate, chew out, chide, come down on, decry, dress down, give a piece of one's mind, give smb. a talking-to, give smb. a telling-off, give smb. beans, give smb. hell, give the stick, inveigh, jaw out, keelhaul, lace into, lambaste, lash, lecture, let smb. have it, light into, objurgate, peck at smb., punish, rag, rail, rap smb. over the knuckles, rate, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reprove, roast, sail into, score, slang, slap, slate, strafe, take to task, talk to smb., tell off, tell smb. one's mind, tick off, trim, twit, upbraid, vituperate). (various references)

Turkmen 

sцgmek (abuse, curse), kдяemek. (various references)

Ukranian 

сварлива жінка (catamaran, nag, nagger, shrew), сваритися (altercate, broil, disagree, feud, part company, quarrel, revile, spat), картати (cant, castigate, chide, objurgate, pitch on), лайка (abuse, altercation, barge, chevrette, curse, damn, dog-skin, hassle, kid-skin, oath, ordure, swear word, vituperation), лайливець, бурчати (beef, begrudge, buzz, carp, croak, groan, grouch, growl, grunt, mutter, nag, natter, rumble). (various references)

Vietnamese 

người đ� n b� hay gắt gỏng, người đ� n b� hay chửi rủa, người đ� n b� bẳn tính. (various references)

Welsh

ymgeinio (revile), tafodi (berate), dwrdio, difri%o (abuse, blackguard, malign), cymhennu (put in order, reprove, trim), cecren (shrew). (various references)

admonere, conviciabantur, conviciatur, convicietur, exagitabantur, exagitabat, exagitat, iurgamini, iurgantes, iurgari, iurgati, iurgatus, obiurgans, obiurgatio, obiurgavi, vituperans, vituperationem, vituperavit, vituperes, vituperet. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "scold": scolded, scolder, scolders, scolding, scoldings, scolds. (additional references)

Words ending with "scold": outscold. (additional references)

Words containing "scold": outscolded, outscolding, outscolds. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Scold" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ockold, Scalz, schoold, Scilt, sclog, sclot, scod, scoel, Scoil, scol, scola, scolde, Scoli, scoll, Scollo, scolo, Scolty, scond, scord, scordi, scoul, scould, Scoule, scowld, sculi, Scuole, scyld, secolo, shold, Sicord, skod, skol, skole, skould, smold, soljd, stold, Svold. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: clods, colds.

-1 letter: clod, cods, cold, cols, docs, dols, olds, sold.

-2 letters: cod, col, cos, doc, dol, dos, ods, old, sod, sol.

-3 letters: do, lo, od, os, so.

+1 letter: closed, clouds, scolds.

+2 letters: coddles, codlins, coldest, coldish, coleads, couldst, scalado, scolded, scolder, scowled, solaced.

+3 letters: beclouds, cabildos, cacodyls, caldrons, calvados, carloads, caseload, celadons, cheloids, chlorids, cladodes, cloddish, closeted, closured, clowders, coalshed, coddlers, codeless, codicils, codlings, coldness, coleseed, collards, collides, colloids, colludes, coloreds, condoles, condyles, consoled, cordials, cordless, couldest, cuckolds, cycloids, daglocks, decalogs, decolors, dicotyls, disclose, discolor, domicils, enclosed, glochids, inclosed, lingcods, lycopods, occludes, outscold, padlocks, pedocals, placoids, podsolic, scaffold, scalados, schooled, scleroid, scolders, scolding, scrolled, secondly, slouched, unclosed, unclouds, wedlocks.

+4 letters: accolades, acidulous, blockades, boldfaces, caboodles, calloused, canoodles, cartloads, caseloads, caudillos, cauldrons, chaldrons, chilidogs, chilopods, chlordans, chlorides, clerkdoms, clochards, cloddiest, clodpates, clodpoles, clodpolls, closedown, cloudiest, cloudless, cloudlets, clupeoids, coalesced, coalsheds, coalyards, coastland, coholders, colanders, coldcocks, coleaders, coleseeds, collapsed, colliders, colluders, colonised, colubrids, concludes, condolers, conelrads, consulted, convulsed, cooldowns, copyholds, cordelles, corydalis, counseled, coverlids, credulous, creolised, croplands, custodial, deadlocks, decolours, decouples, delicious, diastolic, diclinous, disclosed, discloser, discloses, discoidal, discolors, dishcloth, dishclout, dislocate, dissocial, docklands, domiciles, downscale, dropsical, escaloped, focalised, glucoside, glycoside, golcondas, gridlocks, headlocks, helicoids, holdbacks, idiolects, ironclads, lacewoods, localised, lockdowns, locoweeds, lodicules, logicised, ludicrous, melodicas, nucleoids, opalesced, osculated, outscolds, rockslide, scaffolds, scalloped, schoolkid, sclerosed, scoldings, scolloped, scoundrel, shylocked, solecised, solecized, solicited, splotched, subcooled, synodical, vocalised.

+5 letters: acidophils, adolescent, bedclothes, belowdecks, blackwoods, blastodisc, blockaders, blockheads, bloodstock, broadscale, calvadoses, candyfloss, celloidins, celluloids, childhoods, chlordanes, chokeholds, chondrules, cladograms, clampdowns, clapboards, clipboards, clitorides, cloistered, clonidines, closedowns, clostridia, cloudburst, cloudiness, cloudlands, cloudscape, coalfields, coastlands, codevelops, codswallop, coldnesses, collodions, colonnades, composedly, concluders, condylomas, confusedly, consumedly, cornfields, cotyledons, counselled, cradlesong, crocodiles, cuddlesome, decalogues, decathlons, decillions, decisional, declension, decollates, decolletes, decontrols, decorously, deflectors, dichlorvos, dicumarols, diplodocus, disclosers, disclosing, disclosure, discolored, discophile, dishcloths, dishclouts, dislocated, dislocates, docilities, doctorless, downscaled, downscales, dreadlocks, dropcloths, dulcimores, electrodes, enscrolled, ensorceled, episodical, escalloped, fluoresced, foreclosed, glucosides, glucosidic, glycosides, glycosidic, goldbricks, hydroceles, hydrosolic, indolences, inscrolled, lancewoods, lidocaines, logaoedics, lowercased, miscolored, mislocated, nidicolous, nucleoside, obsolesced, octoploids, oscillated, outclassed, outmuscled, outscolded, outslicked, overclouds, overscaled, pediculous, pelecypods, polydipsic, prosodical, pseudocoel, redolences, reschooled, ridiculous, roadblocks, rockslides, sacerdotal, scaffolded, scandalous, schoolkids, schoolyard, scoundrels, socialised, socialized, solicitude, sporicidal, stockpiled, telescoped, truckloads, undercools, unenclosed, unschooled, woodblocks.

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