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scald

/skɒld/ · noun

Meaning

  1. A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by hot liquid or steam.
  2. To burn with hot liquid.
  3. To heat almost to boiling.
  4. Scaliness; a scabby skin disease.
  5. Affected with the scab; scabby.
  6. Paltry; worthless.
  7. A Nordic poet of the Viking Age

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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