Bullying vs Scald - What's the difference?
bullying | scald |
An act of intimidating a weaker person to do something, especially such repeated coercion.
Persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant for another person.
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To burn with hot liquid.
* 1605 , , IV. vii. 48:
* Cowley
(cooking) To heat almost to boiling.
(obsolete) Scaliness; a scabby skin disease.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , I.vii:
*, II.12:
(obsolete) Affected with the scab; scabby.
* 1599 , , III. i. 110:
(obsolete) Paltry; worthless.
* 1598 , , V. ii. 215:
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As nouns the difference between bullying and scald
is that bullying is an act of intimidating a weaker person to do something, especially such repeated coercion while scald is a burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by hot liquid or steam or scald can be (obsolete) scaliness; a scabby skin disease or scald can be .As verbs the difference between bullying and scald
is that bullying is while scald is to burn with hot liquid.As an adjective scald is
(obsolete) affected with the scab; scabby.bullying
English
(wikipedia bullying)Noun
(en noun)See also
* * mobbingVerb
(head)scald
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl),Verb
(en verb)- to scald the hand
- Mine own tears / Do scald like molten lead.
- Here the blue flames of scalding brimstone fall.
- Scald the milk until little bubbles form.
Etymology 2
Alteration of (scall).Noun
(-)- Her craftie head was altogether bald, / And as in hate of honorable eld, / Was ouergrowne with scurfe and filthy scald .
- Some heale Horses, some cure men, some the plague, some the scald .
Adjective
(en adjective)- and let us knog our / prains together to be revenge on this same scald , scurvy, / cogging companion,
- Saucy lictors / Will catch at us like strumpets, and scald rhymers / Ballad us out o' tune.
Etymology 3
Noun
(en noun)- A war song such as was of yore chanted on the field of battle by the scalds of the yet heathen Saxons. — Sir Walter Scott.