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say it: skohld
scold is a verb and noun meaning "censure severely or angrily". It is pronounced /ˈskoʊld/ — skohld. It carries 3 recorded senses.
censure severely or angrily
“The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car”
“The deputy ragged the Prime Minister”
“The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup”
someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for scold come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.