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Love with its teeth showing and patience fully spent.
means To angrily criticize or rebuke someone, usually for their own good, with the gloves off.
from From Old Norse 'skald,' meaning a poet or satirist — the kind who composed biting, mocking verses about people. The word traveled into English and curdled from 'sharp-tongued poet' into 'nagging rebuker,' losing its literary dignity but keeping all the sting.
- origin
- once meant a quarrelsome woman, specifically
- sound shape
- short, hard, impossible to say gently
- body language
- finger included at no extra charge
- secret function
- care disguised as volume