Lexicographical Neighbors of Scauding
Literary usage of Scauding
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The North American Review by Making of America Project, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1815)
"If ye diuna eat instantly, and put some saul in ye, by 4 the bread and the salt,
I'll put it doun your throat wi' the ' cutty spoon, scauding as it is, ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1879)
"... but it, with many more of my written things, were stolen from my room, which
terrified me from ' scauding my lips in ither folk's kail' again. ..."
3. English Prose (1137-1890) by John Matthews Manly (1909)
"... the least you can expect is to have a redhot iron driven through your tongue,
and that will be as bad as scauding your fingers wi' a redhot chanter. ..."
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