scald properly“scabby,” but used as
“a word of contempt, implying poverty, disease, and
filth”
(JOHNSON)
:
“rascally, scald”
HENRY V., v. 1. 5
(
“scauld,”
Cambridge
);
“scald knave,”
HENRY V., v. 1. 28
(
“scauld,”
Cambridge
);
“scald rhymers,”
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, v. 2.
214.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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