chide
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English chiden (“to chide, rebuke, disapprove, criticize; complain, grumble, dispute; argue, debate, dispute, quarrel”), from Old English ċīdan (“to chide, reprove, rebuke; blame, contend, strive, quarrel, complain”). Cognate with German kiden (“to sound”); Old High German kīdal (“wedge”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
chide (third-person singular simple present chides, present participle chiding, simple past chid, chided, or chode, past participle chid, chided, or chidden)
- (transitive) To admonish in blame; to reproach angrily.
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- 1591 And yet I was last chidden for being too slow. — Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act 2, Scene 1.
- 1598 If the scorn of your bright eyne
- Have power to raise such love in mine,
- Alack, in me what strange effect
- Would they work in mild aspect?
- Whiles you chid me, I did love — Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 4 Scene 2.
- 1920, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Thuvia, Maiden of Mars[1], edition HTML, The Gutenberg Project, published 2008:
- Then she had not chidden him for the use of that familiar salutation, nor did she chide him now, though she was promised to another.
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- (intransitive, obsolete) To utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find fault; to contend angrily.
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- 1611 And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me? — Genesis 31:36 KJV.
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- (intransitive) To make a clamorous noise; to chafe.
- Shakespeare
- As doth a rock against the chiding flood.
- Shakespeare
Synonyms[edit]
- See also Wikisaurus:reprehend
Translations[edit]
loudly admonish
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