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lambaste, v.|læmˈbeɪst|
Also 9 lambust, lambast.
[? f. lam v. + baste v.]
a. trans. To beat, thrash. colloq.
1637I. Jones & Davenant Brit. Tri. 18 Stand off a while and see how Ile lambaste him. 1678J. Phillips Tavernier's Trav. i. viii. 52 Otherwise they would be fin'd, and lambasted with a good Cudgel. 1837Haliburton Clockm. i. xxiii, I am six foot six in my stockin feet, by gum, and can lambaste any two of you in no time. 1877N.W. Linc. Gloss., Lambaste, to beat.
b. fig. To scold, castigate.
1886Harper's Mag. July 321/2 With an avalanche of facts, sarcasm and ridicule..a more complete lambasting and more vigorous and thorough roasting than Wise gave Bontelle was never known. 1891Kipling Light that Failed viii. 151, I only gave him his riding-orders to—to lambast you on general principles for not producing work that will last. 1930Times 13 Jan. 14/4 Mr. Maxton was heard to say, ‘Mr. Chairman... It has been said that you were going to ‘lambast’ me at this conference.’ 1938J. Rice Somers Inheritance i. iv. 29 His sermons got down to the bed-rock..even if they..failed to lambaste wickedness with quite the fury it deserved. 1947People 22 June 4/2 So he has castigated America for daring to interfere in Palestine, and now he lambasts Russia for meddling in the affairs of the little countries. 1951Oxf. Dict. Nursery Rhymes 28 Halliwell struck a saner note (1842) but greedily copied down as facts any theories related to him, and though he lambasted Ker, he was not above speculation himself. 1956Jrnl. Educ. July 304 Having myself been lambasted more than once by the Italicists because I dared to qualify my praise of their handwriting. 1958Times 16 Oct. 8/5 To this lambasting Dr. Rowse was all smiles and soothing words. 1967Boston Globe 20 May 2/2 He lambasted teaching techniques, saying they have become ‘a disciplinary practice’. 1969N. Hare in A. Chapman New Black Voices (1972) 428 They lambasted the ultradevotion of many black intellectuals to jazz music. 1972Newsweek 10 Jan. 19/1 If the economy should stay sour, the alternative script called for Mr. Nixon to lambaste the labour bosses.
Hence lamˈbasting vbl. n.
1694Motteux Rabelais iv. xii. 48 If they were long without a tight Lambasting. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Lambusting, a starting with a rope's end. |