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SCOLDING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Rebuking a person harshly
Synonyms:
chiding; objurgation; scolding; tongue-lashing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("scolding" is a kind of...):
rebuke; reprehension; reprimand; reproof; reproval (an act or expression of criticism and censure)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "scolding"):
wig; wigging (British slang for a scolding)
Derivation:
scold (censure severely or angrily)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb scold
Context examples:
“But I hope your aunt will keep in her own room a good deal. And I hope she's not a scolding old thing!”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I do not know when I shall have done scolding you, and had discretion enough to reserve the rest till they might be secure of having four walls to themselves.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
A week elapsed before she could see Elizabeth without scolding her, a month passed away before she could speak to Sir William or Lady Lucas without being rude, and many months were gone before she could at all forgive their daughter.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Catherine trembled at the emphasis with which he spoke, and sat pale and breathless, in a most humble mood, concerned for his children, and detesting old chests; and the general, recovering his politeness as he looked at her, spent the rest of his time in scolding his daughter for so foolishly hurrying her fair friend, who was absolutely out of breath from haste, when there was not the least occasion for hurry in the world: but Catherine could not at all get over the double distress of having involved her friend in a lecture and been a great simpleton herself, till they were happily seated at the dinner-table, when the general's complacent smiles, and a good appetite of her own, restored her to peace.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
They ought to have told me, and not let me go blundering and scolding, when I should have been more kind and patient than ever.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Doady will carry me upstairs before you go, and I won't come down again till you come back; and you shall take Agnes a dreadfully scolding letter from me, because she has never been to see us!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Mrs. Norris began scolding.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
There was nothing the young gentleman would have liked better, but elephants could not have dragged him back after the scolding he had received.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
All kinds of treatment were tried with him, coaxing, scolding, slapping, bringing him to Buckingham Street (where he instantly dashed at the two cats, to the terror of all beholders); but he never could prevail upon himself to bear my aunt's society.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I have had a little fit since I came into this room, as you may perceive, said she presently, with a playful smile, but it is over now; so let us sit down and be comfortable; for as to scolding you, Fanny, which I came fully intending to do, I have not the heart for it when it comes to the point.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
