English Dictionary

scold

/skəʊld/

verb

(transitive, intransitive) To rebuke angrily. / (ornithology) Of birds, to make harsh vocalisations in aggression. / Of birds, to make vocalisations that resemble human scolding.

She scolded her children for not doing their homework.

意味（1）

(transitive, intransitive) To rebuke angrily.

I advise that you refrain from using that kind of language at home, lest your mother scold you.

意味（2）

(ornithology) Of birds, to make harsh vocalisations in aggression.

意味（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 became occasionally a little sentimental and warbled gently and bashfully some tender stanzas.

意味（4）

Misconstruction of scald