sloann.
/sləʊn/, U.S. /sloʊn/, Scottish English /slon/ Scottish. rare.
A severe snub or reproof; a ‘taking-down’.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > [noun] > severe > instance of
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rattle1652
juniper letter1655
juniper lecture1706
siserary1771
wig1789
a word of a sort1796
rowing1812
wigging1813
sloan1823
scorcher1842
rubdowna1846
tickler1846
slating1881
bawl-out1926
earful1929
caning1933
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rollicking1938
rocket1941
bollocking1946
butt-kicking1970
1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well I. i. 28 None so likely as Meg to give them what in her country is called a sloan.
1830 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian I, in Waverley Novels XI. 320 To have an opportunity of reviling the Judges to their faces, or giving them, in the phrase of his country, ‘a sloan’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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