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A severe scolding
Answer for the clue "A severe scolding ", 6 letters:
earful
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. an outpouring of gossip a severe scolding [syn: castigation , bawling out , chewing out , upbraiding , going-over , dressing down ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"a piece of one's mind," 1915, from ear (n.1) + -ful . Ear-bash (v.) is Australian slang (1944) for "talk inordinately" (to someone).
Usage examples of earful.
Sandanato had been formal, proper, undemonstrative, such a contrast to the vibrant cardinal who had been standing beside the black limo, face to the sunshine, already giving Higgins an earful, when the monsignor had brought her out to the street.
Transportation Command, and had been given an earful on how the transportation plans had been severely disrupted.
Once it had been a earful of yobbos, drunken revellers shouting into the night.
When it turned out to be true, the sheriff got more than an earful from the governor and there was a bloodbath in the papers.
He hung around, trying to make up his mind between two brands of plug tobacco, neither of which he intended buying, meanwhile getting an earful.
One day in 1900, as a earful of smartly dressed tobogganers were being hauled up the hill to be despatched on another hair-raising descent, the winch cable snapped, sending the passengers hurtling out of control to a messy but exciting death at the bottom, and that was pretty much the end of the Shipley Glen Amusement Park.