S COLDとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /skəʊld/, [skɒʊɫd]
• (米国発音) IPA: /skoʊld/
• 韻: -əʊld

名詞

scold (plural scolds)

1. A person who habitually scolds, in particular a troublesome and angry woman.

   Synonyms: Karen, social justice warrior, wokescold, AWFUL

   • c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.:

     A ſclaunderous tunge, a tunge of a ſkolde,
     Worketh more miſchiefe than can be tolde;
     That, if I wiſt not to be controlde,
     Yet ſomwhat to ſay I dare well be bolde,
     How ſome delite for to lye, thycke and threfolde.

   • 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part II, XVIII [Uniform ed., p. 196]:

     “Well, I won’t have it, and that’s enough.” She laughed, for her voice had a little been that of the professional scold.

   • 1980, Robert Dougall, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 379:

     Near the pond was the ducking-stool where many a village scold had her tongue temporarily stilled.

   • 2015 September 14, Paul Krugman, “Labour's dead centre [print version: International New York Times, 15 September 2015, p. 9]”, in The New York Times‎:

     Consider the contrast with the United States, where deficit scolds dominated Beltway discourse in 2010–2011 but never managed to dictate the terms of political debate […]

別の表記

• scould, scolde (obsolete)

同意語

• See Thesaurus:shrew

関連する語

• scold's bridle

動詞

scold (third-person singular simple present scolds, present participle scolding, simple past and past participle scolded)

1. (ambitransitive) To rebuke angrily.

   I advise that you refrain from using that kind of language at home, lest your mother scold you.

   • 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], Pride and Prejudice: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:

     A week elapsed before she could see Elizabeth without scolding her —

   • 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:

     Molly the dairymaid came a little way from the rickyard, and said she would pluck the pigeon that very night after work. She was always ready to do anything for us boys; and we could never quite make out why they scolded her so for an idle hussy indoors. It seemed so unjust. Looking back, I recollect she had very beautiful brown eyes.

2. (ornithology) Of birds, to make harsh vocalisations in aggression.
3. Of birds, to make vocalisations that resemble human scolding.
   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 89:

     [T]he merry songsters of the wood now filled the air with their jubilee; the nutcracker began his monotonous clattering, the chaffinches and the wrens sang high in the sky, the blackcock scolded and blustered loudly, the thrush sang his mocking songs and libellous ditties about everybody, but became occasionally a little sentimental and warbled gently and bashfully some tender stanzas.

4. Misconstruction of scald.

同意語

• See Thesaurus:criticize

派生語

• outscold

参照

アナグラム

• clods, clos'd, colds