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TONGUE-LASHING

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Dictionary entry overview: What does tongue-lashing mean?

• TONGUE-LASHING (noun)
The noun TONGUE-LASHING has 1 sense:

1. rebuking a person harshly

Familiarity information: TONGUE-LASHING used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• TONGUE-LASHING (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Rebuking a person harshly

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

chiding; objurgation; scolding; tongue-lashing

Hypernyms ("tongue-lashing" 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 "tongue-lashing"):

wig; wigging (British slang for a scolding)

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