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Etymology
From unattested Middle English *skodlinge, metathesis of Middle English skoldinge. Initial s- was lost before /kʊ/ or /kuː/, compare keowe (“shove”).
Pronunciation
Verb
cowdealeen
- scolding
1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:A war cowdealeen wi ooree.- They were scolding with one another.
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 32