Dictionary

chide en · VERB

Pronunciation

• / t͡ʃaɪd/
• /t͡ʃɛɪd/ (Northumbria)
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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”).

Meanings

1. (literary, transitive) To admonish in blame; to reproach angrily.
   • Then she had not chidden him for the use of that familiar salutation, nor did she chide him now, though she was promised to another. 1920, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Thuvia, Maiden of Mars, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2008:
   • Yet didn't you ſee, yet didn't you ſee, What naughty tricks they put upon me: They broke my pitcher, And ſpilt the water, And huff'd my mother, And chid her daughter, And kiſs'd my ſiſter inſtead of me. 1795, Gammer Gurton's Garland, or, The Nursery Parnassus, Stockton: R. Christopher, page 27:
   • 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. c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 24:
   • Valentine: Well, you’ll still be too forward. Speed: And yet I was last chidden for being too slow. c. 1594, William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, act 2, scene 1:
   • Whiles you chid me, I did love; How then might your prayers move! c. 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, act 4, scene 3:
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find fault; to contend angrily.
   • And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me? 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Genesis 31:36:
3. (ambitransitive, obsolete) To make a clamorous noise; to chafe.
   • […] though perils did Abound, as thick as thought could make ’em, and Appear in forms more horrid,—yet my duty, As doth a rock against the chiding flood, Should the approach of this wild river break, And stand unshaken yours. c. 1612, William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, Henry VIII, act 3, scene 2:
   • Where is he living, clipp’d in with the sea That chides the banks of England, Scotland, Wales, Which calls me pupil, or hath read to me? c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, act 3, scene 1:

Forms

Deriveds

chider · chidester · bechide

Translations (54)

grc ἐνίπτω (loudly admonish) · cs vyčinit (loudly admonish) · cs hubovat (loudly admonish) · mi koeka (loudly admonish) · bg мъмря (loudly admonish) · ru руга́ть (loudly admonish) · ar قَرَّعَ (loudly admonish) · ja 窘める (loudly admonish) · pt ralhar (loudly admonish) · it rimproverare (loudly admonish) · el μαλώνω (loudly admonish) · pl zbesztać (loudly admonish) · pl strofować (loudly admonish) · lt barti (loudly admonish) · fa شخولیدن (loudly admonish) · hu dorgál (loudly admonish) · ru упрека́ть (loudly admonish) · ko 꾸짖다 (loudly admonish) · ru бичева́ть (loudly admonish) · bg гълча (loudly admonish) · fi raivota (loudly admonish) · es increpar (loudly admonish) · mi whāwhai (loudly admonish) · hu szid (loudly admonish) · sv hundfila (loudly admonish) · gd càin (loudly admonish) · hu korhol (loudly admonish) · mi tapitapi (loudly admonish) · cmn 責罵 /责骂 (loudly admonish) · mi whakatapitapi (loudly admonish) · ro certa (loudly admonish) · pl besztać (loudly admonish) · eo riproĉi (loudly admonish) · cmn 喝叱 (loudly admonish) · ru брани́ть (loudly admonish) · cs vynadat (loudly admonish) · es reprehender (loudly admonish) · pl łajać (loudly admonish) · la obiurgō (loudly admonish) · cs vyhubovat (loudly admonish) · ru распека́ть (loudly admonish) · fa سرکوفت زدن (loudly admonish) · cmn 呵斥 (loudly admonish) · fr réprimander (loudly admonish) · sk vynadať (loudly admonish) · mi uruuru (loudly admonish) · es cafetear (loudly admonish) · ar وَبَّخَ (loudly admonish) · vi mắng (loudly admonish) · gd cronaich (loudly admonish) · es reprender (loudly admonish) · gd troid (loudly admonish) · de schelten (loudly admonish) · ro mustra (loudly admonish)