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scald

verb
/skɔld/US/skɔːld/UK/skɔld/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Proto-Indo-European *ḱelh₁-der. Proto-Italic *kalēō Latin caleō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin calidus Latin caldus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin excaldō Old Northern French escalderbor. Middle English scalden English scald From Middle English scalden, assumed to stem from Old Northern French escalder (compare central Old French eschauder, eschalder), from Late Latin excaldāre (“bathe in hot water”), from ex- (“off, out”) + cal(i)dus (“hot”). Cognate with Old Swedish skalda, skolda, skolla, skala, Swedish skålla, Danish skolde, Norwegian skålda, skaalda, Icelandic skálda. Also compare Old Norse skálda (“to rot, fall off, of hair”), to skalli (“baldness”), borrowed as Middle English scalle (“hair loss infektion, rash, blistering”), English scall.

  1. derived from excaldo — “bathe in hot water”
  2. derived from escalder
  3. inherited from scalden

Definitions

  1. To burn with hot liquid.

    • to scald the hand
    • Mine own tears / Do scald like molten lead.
    • Here the blue flames of scalding brimstone fall.

  2. To heat almost to boiling.

    • Scald the milk until little bubbles form.

  3. A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by hot liquid or steam.

  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

    1. A paste, made by mixing flour with hot or boiling water (causing starches in it to…

      A paste, made by mixing flour with hot or boiling water (causing starches in it to gelatinize and hold more water) and allowing that mixture to sit and cool, which is added to bread dough to produce a softer bread that takes longer to stale.

      • […] stir in the flour by hand, and afterwards add the boiling water, and stir vigorously as already described for Virgin barm. The scald should not be so stiff as for Virgin, and should taste sweet when newly made.

    2. Poor or bad land.

    3. Scaliness

      Scaliness; a scabby skin disease.

      • Her craftie head was altogether bald, / And as in hate of honorable eld, / Was ouergrowne with scurfe and filthy scald[…].
      • Some heale Horses, some cure men, some the plague, some the scald [translating teigne], some the cough, some one kinde of scab, and some another[…].

    4. Affected with the scab

      Affected with the scab; scabby.

      • and let us knog our / prains together to be revenge on this same scald, scurvy, / cogging companion,

    5. Paltry

      Paltry; worthless.

      • Would it not grieue a King to be so abuſ’d? And haue a thouſand horſmen tane away? And which is worſe to haue his Diadem Sought for by ſuch ſcalde knaues as loue him not?
      • Saucy lictors / Will catch at us like strumpets, and scald rhymers / Ballad us out o' tune.

    6. Alternative form of skald.

The neighborhood

Derived

antiscald, barley scald, forscald, nonscalding, rainscald, scalder, scaldhead, scaldingly, sunscald, scald-crow

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA