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scald

Pronunciation: /skɔld/

The English word “scald” has 8 meanings listed here.

verb

  1. To burn with hot liquid.
  2. To heat almost to boiling.

noun

  1. A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by hot liquid or steam.
  2. 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.
  3. Poor or bad land.
  4. Scaliness; a scabby skin disease.

adjective

  1. Affected with the scab; scabby.
  2. Paltry; worthless.

Etymology

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…

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