Chide Definition

chīd
chid, chidden, chided, chides, chiding
verb
chid, chidden, chided, chides, chiding
To scold; now, usually, to reprove mildly.
Webster's New World
To express disapproval.
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Wiktionary

(intransitive) To make a clamorous noise; to chafe.

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Origin of Chide

  • 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”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English chiden from Old English cīdan from cīd strife, contention

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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