= Kyrie eleison, n. 2. Obsolete.

transferred. A complaint; a scolding. Obsolete.

An angry rebuke, a reproof. Obsolete or archaic.

a scolding or ‘talking to’.

A violent scolding. Obsolete. rare.

An act of scolding; a scolding rebuke. ? Obsolete exc. Scottish.

A beating, a drubbing; a sharp censure.

an explosion; colloquial a scolding.

A talking-to, dressing-down. Obsolete. rare.

An unexpected and humiliating rebuff. Also, a severe scolding.

The action or practice of scolding, teasing, or boisterously making fun of someone; an instance of this.

A snubbing reproof, a scolding.

Scottish. ‘The act of scolding; sometimes expressed, a hurl of a flyte’ (Jamieson).

A ‘lecture’, a scolding. dialect.

Originally Scottish and English regional (northern). A scolding. Cf. heckle, v. 4.

Wringing, screwing; spiral turning; contortion, distortion; figurative perversion or wresting of sense; slang, a scolding; a trouncing.

A set-down; a scolding or reprimand; = downset, n. 3. Obsolete.

colloquial (originally U.S.). A talking-to; a scolding, a dressing-down.

? A scolding.

English regional (Yorkshire). In plural. Scolding; a telling-off. Cf. call, v. 11. Obsolete.

Originally chiefly Military. An act of reprimanding or rebuking someone; a scolding. Cf. to tell off 5 at tell, v. phrasal verbs 1.

A severe reprimand, a scolding; the action of berating someone. Cf. roust, v.3 rousing, n.3

plural. Hard knocks, scolding.

a blow, hit; also, a scolding.

A severe rebuke, a scolding; (also) the action of rebuking someone.