transitive. To call by a bad name; to call (a person) names; to revile, abuse, malign. Now archaic and regional.

Disgracefully, shamefully; ignominiously. Obsolete.

transitive. To call by an abusive name; to insult; = miscall, v. 1. Now rare (Irish English in later use).

to call (a person) names: to address (a person) with abusive or insulting names; to insult (a person) verbally. Also to call names: to make…

To call names, miscall.

transitive. British regional. To abuse, vilify; to scold, tell off. Cf. call, n. 8, to call to naught at naught, pron. 4.