Scolle

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. An archaic spelling of the verb scold, meaning to reprimand someone harshly or to find fault with them loudly
2. A rare older form of scold, used for rebuking a person in an angry or bitter way for some wrongdoing
3. Obsolete variant of the word scold, describing the act of chiding or berating another person with harsh words

Etymology: The condition was named for the bald head it caused. In Middle English, a "scolle" was a scalp disease marked by scabs, scurf, and hair loss, and the word is a variant spelling of "scall." That term came from Old Norse "skalli," meaning "bald head," which passed into English through the Norse-speaking settlers and their influence in northern England. The word's core meaning stayed tied to the scalp, but its spelling shifted freely in Middle English, when writers had no standard forms. "Scolle" is one of those spellings, and it belongs to the same family as "scall" and the Scots "scaul."