Chine vs Scold - What's the difference?
chine | scold |
The top of a ridge.
The spine of an animal.
* Dryden
* 1883:
A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking.
(nautical) a sharp angle in the cross section of a hull
The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.
To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.
To chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine.
(Webster 1913)
(Southern England) a steep-sided ravine leading from the top of a cliff down to the sea
* J. Ingelow
* 1988, , Penguin Books (1988), page 169
(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 verbs the difference between chine and scold
is that chine is while scold is to rebuke.As a noun scold is
(obsolete) a person fond of abusive language, in particular a troublesome and angry woman.chine
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) chyne, from (etyl) eschine.Noun
(wikipedia chine) (en noun)- And chine with rising bristles roughly spread.
Verb
(chin)Etymology 2
(etyl) , from (etyl) cine, (cinu). The Old English term is cognate to Old Saxon kena, and is related to the Old English verb ("to split open, to sprout").Noun
(en noun)- The cottage in a chine .
- In the odorous stillness of the day I thought of the tracks that threaded Egdon Heath, and of benign, elderly Sandbourne, with its chines and sheltered beach-huts.
Anagrams
* ----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.