Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A Scotch form of
scald .
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Examples
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To skelp an 'scaud poor dogs like me, [spank, scald]
Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907
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'at I lo'ed afore I kent she was my ain sister, an' jist thoucht lang to win near eneuch till to du her ony guid turn worth duin? An 'here I am, her ane half brither, wi' naething i 'my pooer but to scaud the hert o' her, or else lee!
The Marquis of Lossie George MacDonald 1864
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