Green’s Dictionary of Slang

scalded adj.2

[fig. use of SE scald]

1. drunk.

[US]J. Archibald ‘Bird Cagey’ in Popular Detective Jan. 🌐 He was scalded all right, that playboy.

2. (US campus) rejected.

[US]Eble Campus Sl. Mar. 9: scalded – rejected: Joe put the move on Cindy last night, but he got scalded.