Crossword clues for earful
earful
- Bawling out
- Verbal rebuke
- Reprimand (informal)
- Rebuke amount?
- Quite a talking-to
- Load of gossip
- Angry rebuke
- Vigorous scolding
- Verbal outpouring, to the listener
- Rebuke, scolding
- Rebuke or scolding
- Probably more than you wanted to hear
- Piece of one's mind
- Outpouring of outrage
- Outpouring of complaints
- Loud blast — angry reprimand
- Long monologue
- Lengthy reprimand, so to speak
- Lengthy rebuke
- Gossiper's outpouring
- Copious unwanted advice
- A scolding and then some
- Outpouring of gossip
- Good telling-off
- Talking-to
- Too much talk
- Sharp scolding
- An outpouring of gossip
- A severe scolding
- Juicy bit of gossip
- Dressing-down
- "Cheerful Little ___," 1930 song
- Scolding
- Afraid when one female unleashed reprimand
- Miss the start of terrible telling off
- Maximum amount of wax, perhaps, for carpeting?
- Reprimand received by 23 12
- Prolonged reprimand
- Prolonged and angry reprimand
- Sharp rebuke
- Verbal attack
- A load of gossip
- Severe scolding
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context informal English) a reprimand, castigation or telling off 2 (context informal English) intimate gossip
WordNet
n. an outpouring of gossip
a severe scolding [syn: castigation, bawling out, chewing out, upbraiding, going-over, dressing down]
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.