chide

Definition

To admonish in blame; to reproach angrily.

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”).

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."