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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Heartburn; figuratively, a feeling of shame or aversion.
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Examples
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If he doesn't have a heart-scald of him before he's done with him, I'm no prophet.
The Good Time Coming 1847
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If he doesn't have a heart-scald of him before he's done with him, I'm no prophet.
The Good Time Coming 1847
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If he doesn't have a heart-scald of him before he's done with him, I'm no prophet.
The Good Time Coming 1847
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"They did indeed," said the crooked woman, "and a heart-scald the same old hatching goose is.
The King of Ireland's Son Padraic Colum 1926
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"That ain't all in the piece," Pearl explained; "but it's understood, it says something about 'cruel blows from a father's hand when rum had crazed his brain,' and that's the way poor Nan grew up, and I guess if ever any girl got a heart-scald o 'liquor, she did.
The Second Chance 1910
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"That ain't all in the piece," Pearl explained; "but it's understood, it says something about 'cruel blows from a father's hand when rum had crazed his brain,' and that's the way poor Nan grew up, and I guess if ever any girl got a heart-scald o 'liquor, she did.
The Second Chance Nellie L. McClung 1912
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"Isn't it an awful thing?" he asked, addressing the quiet bog-world under the moon, "to think of a little lad like me havin 'to be out in the night facin' all them ghosts and that ould heart-scald of a man burnin 'his knees at home be the fire?
Love of Brothers Katharine Tynan 1896
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"About nineteen, sir, or goin 'an twenty; but he's a, heart-scald to me and the family -- although he's his mother's pet; the divil can't stand him for dress -- and, moreover, he's given to liquor and card-playin', and is altogether goin 'to the bad.
The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One William Carleton 1831
qms commented on the word heart-scald
"The worst thing a man can do is go bald. Never let yourself go bald." Donald J. Trump
He looked in the mirror appalled,
His tonsure a horror and heart-scald
And took then to building
With fleece of much gilding
A pelt to conceal that he's bald.
October 30, 2016
Gammerstang commented on the word heart-scald
(noun) - Heartburn; figuratively a great disappointment. Also heart-scad. --Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary, 1896-1905
January 31, 2018