Bullying vs Scold - What's the difference?
bullying | scold |
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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(obsolete) A person fond of abusive language, in particular a troublesome and angry woman.
To rebuke.
* 1813 , (Pride and Prejudice) , (Jane Austen)
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As nouns the difference between bullying and scold
is that bullying is an act of intimidating a weaker person to do something, especially such repeated coercion while scold is a person fond of abusive language, in particular a troublesome and angry woman.As verbs the difference between bullying and scold
is that bullying is present participle of lang=en while scold is to rebuke.bullying
English
(wikipedia bullying)Noun
(en noun)See also
* * mobbingVerb
(head)scold
English
Alternative forms
* scould (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- A week elapsed before she could see Elizabeth without scolding her —
- Molly the dairymaid came a little way from the rickyard, and said she would pluck the pigeon that very night after work. She was always ready to do anything for us boys; and we could never quite make out why they scolded her so for an idle hussy indoors. It seemed so unjust. Looking back, I recollect she had very beautiful brown eyes.