scald

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /skɔld/; (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /skɑld/

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• (UK) IPA^(key): /skɔːld/, /skɒld/
• Rhymes: -ɔːld
• Homophone: skald

Etymology 1

From Middle English scalden, from Old Northern French escalder (cf. central Old French eschauder, eschalder), from Late Latin excaldāre (“bathe in hot water”), from Latin ex- (“off, out”) + cal(i)dus (“hot”).

Verb

scald (third-person singular simple present scalds, present participle scalding, simple past and past participle scalded)

1. To burn with hot liquid.

   to scald the hand

   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals), page vii, line 48:

     Mine own tears / Do scald like molten lead.

   • 1656, Abraham Cowley, Davideis:

     Here the blue flames of scalding brimstone fall.

   • 1943 March and April, “Notes and News: Southern Locomotive Destroys Raider”, in Railway Magazine, page 119:

     The fireman was scalded by steam, but he did not fare so badly as the enemy pilot, whose dead body was found on a bank about 100 yd. away from the train.

2. (cooking) To heat almost to boiling.

   Scald the milk until little bubbles form.

Translations

to burn with hot fluid

• Bulgarian: попарвам (bg) (poparvam)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 燙傷／烫伤 (zh) (tàngshāng), 燙／烫 (zh) (tàng)

• Czech: opařit pf, spařit pf
• Finnish: polttaa (fi), aiheuttaa palovamma, kaltata (fi)
• French: ébouillanter (fr)
• Galician: escaldar
• German: verbrühen (de)
• Greek: ζεματώ (el) (zemató)
• Hebrew: שרף‎ (he) (saráf)
• Hungarian: leforráz (hu)
• Italian: scottare (it)
• Latin: combūrō
• Lithuanian: plikyti
• Portuguese: escaldar (pt)
• Romanian: opări (ro), înfierbânta (ro)
• Russian: обжига́ть (ru) impf (obžigátʹ), обже́чь (ru) pf (obžéčʹ), ошпаривать (ru) impf (ošparivatʹ), ошпа́рить (ru) pf (ošpáritʹ), обва́ривать (ru) impf (obvárivatʹ), обвари́ть (ru) pf (obvarítʹ)
• Spanish: quemar (es), escaldar (es)
• Swedish: skålla (sv)
• Tagalog: banlian (tl), mabanlian, makabanli
• Thai: ลวก (th) (lûuak)
• Ukrainian: обшпарювати (obšparjuvaty), обшпарити (obšparyty)

to heat almost to boiling

• Bulgarian: запарвам (zaparvam)
• Finnish: kuumentaa (fi)
• German: brühen (de)
• Hebrew: הרתיח‎ (hirtíakh)
• Italian: scaldare (it)
• Portuguese: escaldar (pt)
• Russian: ^{(please verify)} доводи́ть до кипе́ния impf (dovodítʹ do kipénija), ^{(please verify)} довести́ до кипе́ния pf (dovestí do kipénija)
• Spanish: escaldar (es)

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• Norman: ^{(please verify)} scâler (Jersey)

Noun

scald (plural scalds)

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

Translations

burn with hot liquid

• Bulgarian: изгорено място (izgoreno mjasto)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 燙傷／烫伤 (zh) (tàngshāng)

• German: Verbrühung f
• Hebrew: כווייה‎ (he) f (kviyá)
• Russian: ожо́г (ru) m (ožóg)
• Spanish: quemadura (es) f, escaldadura f

Etymology 2

Alteration of scall or scalled.

Noun

scald (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Scaliness; a scabby skin disease.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Her craftie head was altogether bald, / And as in hate of honorable eld, / Was ouergrowne with scurfe and filthy scald […].

   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

     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 […].

Adjective

scald (comparative more scald, superlative most scald)

1. (obsolete) Affected with the scab; scabby.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, act III, scene i, line 110:

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

2. (obsolete) Paltry; worthless.
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene ii:

     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?

   • 1598, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra, act V, scene ii, line 215:

     Saucy lictors / Will catch at us like strumpets, and scald rhymers / Ballad us out o' tune.

Synonyms

• (scabby): roynish, scurvy; see also Thesaurus:scabby
• (paltry): contemptible, miserable, trashy; see also Thesaurus:despicable

Etymology 3

Noun

scald (plural scalds)

1. Alternative form of skald
   • 1820, Walter Scott, chapter I, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 28:

     The fire was spreading rapidly through all parts of the castle, when Ulrica, who had first kindled it, appeared on a turret, in the guise of one of the ancient furies, yelling forth a war-song, such as was of yore chaunted on the field of battle by the scalds of the yet heathen Saxons.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “scald”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• DACLs, S.D. Cal., clads

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [skald]

Etymology 1

Verb

scald

1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of scălda

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French scalde.

Noun

scald m (plural scalzi)

1. skald

Declension

Declension of scald

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) scald	scaldul	(niște) scalzi	scalzii
genitive/dative	(unui) scald	scaldului	(unor) scalzi	scalzilor
vocative	scaldule		scalzilor