SCALD
What does "SCALD" mean?
To burn the skin or surface with hot liquid or steam, or to heat liquid near boiling.
Meanings
- To injure or burn with very hot liquid or steam. He scalded his hand on the spout of the kettle.
- To heat a liquid, especially milk, to just below boiling point. Scald the milk, then let it cool before adding the yeast.
- A burn or injury caused by hot liquid or steam. The nurse dressed the scald on the child's arm.
Word origin
From Old French 'escalder', from Late Latin 'excaldare' meaning 'to wash in hot water', from Latin 'calidus', 'hot'.
Remember it
SCALD = SC + ALD; hear 'scald' and feel the cold relief you'll want right after - opposites in one shudder.
A little poem
The kettle's white breath-
one careless inch of the wrist,
and the skin remembers.
haiku
Wordplay
- Why did the milk get a stern talking-to? Because it was scalded - heated up and told off at the same time.
What it teaches
Heat that helps and heat that harms differ only by a degree and a moment of attention.
Quick facts
What does SCALD mean?
To burn the skin or surface with hot liquid or steam, or to heat liquid near boiling.
Is SCALD a valid word?
Yes — SCALD is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is SCALD?
SCALD has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does SCALD come from?
From Old French 'escalder', from Late Latin 'excaldare' meaning 'to wash in hot water', from Latin 'calidus', 'hot'.
What can SCALD teach us?
Heat that helps and heat that harms differ only by a degree and a moment of attention.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.