scald

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skɔld/; IPA^(key): /skɑld/
• IPA^(key): /skɔːld/
• Rhymes: -ɔːld

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman, (Old French eschalder, French échauder), from Late Latin excaldare (“bathe in hot water”), from Latin ex- (“off, out”) + calidus (“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

   • 1605, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Lear, IV. vii. 48:

     Mine own tears / Do scald like molten lead.

   • (Can we date this quote by Cowley and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Here the blue flames of scalding brimstone fall.

2. (cooking) To heat almost to boiling.

   Scald the milk until little bubbles form.

Translations

to burn with hot fluid

• Finnish: polttaa (fi), aiheuttaa palovamma, kaltata (fi)
• French: ébouillanter (fr)
• Galician: escaldar
• German: verbrühen (de)
• Greek: ζεματώ (el) (zemató)
• Hungarian: leforráz (hu)
• Lithuanian: plikyti
• Portuguese: escaldar (pt)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• 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)

to heat almost to boiling

• Finnish: kuumentaa (fi)
• German: brühen (de)
• Italian: scaldare (it)
• Portuguese: escaldar (pt)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• 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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Translations to be checked

• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} צריבה (he) (tz"rivah)
• Interlingue:
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• 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

• German: Verbrühung f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• 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, The Faerie Queene, I.vii:

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

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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.
   • 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
   • (Can we date this quote by Sir Walter Scott and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     a war song such as was of yore chanted 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

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [skald]

Verb

scald

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