scolds+(verb)

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• kiss the gunner's daughter — verb To be flogged or beaten while restrained over a cannon. But I was punished, my lad made to kiss the wench that never speaks but when she scolds, and thats the gunners daughter, comrade …   Wiktionary

• scold — verb To rebuke. A week elapsed before she could see Elizabeth without scolding her mdash; Syn: objurgate, rebuke See Also: scolds bridle …   Wiktionary

• scold´er — scold «skohld», verb, noun. –v.t. to find fault with; blame with angry words: »His brother scolded him for breaking the baseball bat. –v.i. 1. to find fault; talk angrily: »Don t scold so much. 2. Obsolete. to quarrel noisily; brawl. ╂[< noun] …   Useful english dictionary

• Pipil grammar — This article provides a grammar sketch of the Nawat or Pipil language, an endangered language spoken by the Pipils of western El Salvador, belonging to the Nahua group within the Uto Aztecan language family. There also exists a brief typological… …   Wikipedia

• scold — I. noun Etymology: Middle English scald, scold, perhaps of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse skāld poet, skald, Icelandic skālda to make scurrilous verse Date: 12th century 1. a. one who scolds habitually or persistently b. a woman who… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• scold — /skoʊld / (say skohld) verb (t) 1. to find fault with; chide. –verb (i) 2. to find fault; reprove. 3. to use abusive language. –noun 4. a person, especially a woman, who is habitually abusive: *the jolly life of their fathers, when scolds could… …  

• threat´en|ing|ly — threat|en «THEHT uhn», transitive verb. 1. to make a threat against; say what will be done to hurt or punish: »to threaten a person with imprisonment. The farmer threatened to shoot any dog that killed one of his sheep. 2. Figurative. to give… …   Useful english dictionary

• threat´en|er — threat|en «THEHT uhn», transitive verb. 1. to make a threat against; say what will be done to hurt or punish: »to threaten a person with imprisonment. The farmer threatened to shoot any dog that killed one of his sheep. 2. Figurative. to give… …   Useful english dictionary

• threat|en — «THEHT uhn», transitive verb. 1. to make a threat against; say what will be done to hurt or punish: »to threaten a person with imprisonment. The farmer threatened to shoot any dog that killed one of his sheep. 2. Figurative. to give warning of… …   Useful english dictionary

• scold — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. reprove, rebuke, rate, chide, berate, tongue lash, bawl out (sl.). See disapprobation. Ant., praise. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. admonish, chide, berate, chasten, asperse, expostulate with, rebuke,… …   English dictionary for students

• scold — [[t]sko͟ʊld[/t]] scolds, scolding, scolded VERB If you scold someone, you speak angrily to them because they have done something wrong. [FORMAL] [V n] If he finds out, he ll scold me... [V n for n] Later she scolded her daughter for having talked …   English dictionary