chide

verb

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”).

1. To admonish in blame; to reproach angrily.

   “Valentine: Well, you’ll still be too forward. Speed: And yet I was last chidden for being too slow.”

   “Whiles you chid me, I did love; How then might your prayers move!”

2. 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?”

3. To make a clamorous noise; to chafe.

   “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?”

   “[…] 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.”