scoldeth

Verb

scold (third-person singular simple present scolds, present participle scolding, simple past and past participle scolded)

1. (ambitransitive) To rebuke angrily.
   • I advise that you refrain from using that kind of language at home, lest your mother scold you.
2. Of birds, to make harsh vocalisations in aggression.
3. Of birds, to make vocalisations that resemble human scolding.
   • [T]he merry songsters of the wood now filled the air with their jubilee; the nutcracker began his monotonous clattering, the chaffinches and the wrens sang high in the sky, the blackcock scolded and blustered loudly, the thrush sang his mocking songs and libellous ditties about everybody, but...1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 89

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