chide

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”).

verb

1. (transitive) 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. c. 1594, William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, act 2, scene 1
   Whiles you chid me, I did love; How then might your prayers move! c. 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, act 4, scene 3
   Then she had not chidden him for the use of that familiar salutation, nor did she chide him now, though she was promised to another. 1920, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Thuvia, Maiden of Mars, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2008
2. (intransitive, obsolete) 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? 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Genesis 31:36
3. (transitive, intransitive) 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? c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, act 3, scene 1
   […] 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. c. 1612, William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, Henry VIII, act 3, scene 2