chide
/ t͡ʃaɪd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.18 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find fault; to contend angrily.
Intransitive verb; Obsolete
Example Sentences
- "Valentine: Well, you’ll still be too forward. Speed: And yet I was last chidden for being too slow."
- "Whiles you chid me, I did love; How then might your prayers move!"
- "I know too much: / I finde it, I; for when I ha liſt to ſleepe, / Mary, before your Ladiſhip I grant, / She puts her tongue alittle in her heart, / And chides with thinking."
- "Yet didn't you ſee, yet didn't you ſee, What naughty tricks they put upon me: They broke my pitcher, And ſpilt the water, And huff'd my mother, And chid her daughter, And kiſs'd my ſiſter inſtead of me."
- "Then she had not chidden him for the use of that familiar salutation, nor did she chide him now, though she was promised to another."
- "And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?"
Etymology
From Middle English chiden (“to chide, rebuke, disapprove, criticize; complain, grumble, dispute; argue, debate, dispute, quarrel”), from Old English ċīdan (“to chide, reprove, rebuke; blame, contend, strive, quarrel, complain”). Cognate with German kiden (“to sound”); Old High German kīdal (“wedge”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: chiden, ċīdan