Meanings
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1
verb
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.
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2
verb
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?
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3
verb
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?
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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”).