SCOLDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scolding mean? 

• SCOLDING (noun)
  The noun SCOLDING has 1 sense:

1. rebuking a person harshly

  Familiarity information: SCOLDING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCOLDING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Rebuking a person harshly

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

chiding; objurgation; scolding; tongue-lashing

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)

 Context examples 

There shall be no flurry, no scolding, no discomfort, but a neat house, a cheerful wife, and a good dinner.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“Oh, but reasoning is worse than scolding!” exclaimed Dora, in despair.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Mrs. Bennet deigned not to make any reply, but, unable to contain herself, began scolding one of her daughters.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

She might scold herself for the weakness, but there was no scolding it away.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I have been scolding him to such a degree, my dear Catherine, you would be quite amazed.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

To their ears came the sounds of dogs wrangling and scuffling, the guttural cries of men, the sharper voices of scolding women, and once the shrill and plaintive cry of a child.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

She ran home crying to tell of her misfortune, but her stepmother spoke harshly to her, and after giving her a violent scolding, said unkindly, As you have let the spindle fall into the well you may go yourself and fetch it out.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

She is always scolding me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I hope I am as fond of my child as any mother, but I do not know that I am of any more use in the sick-room than Charles, for I cannot be always scolding and teazing the poor child when it is ill; and you saw, this morning, that if I told him to keep quiet, he was sure to begin kicking about.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

As I couldn't, I held my tongue, and bore the scolding till the old gentleman collared me.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)