Associations to the word «Scolding»

Wiktionary

SCOLDING, noun. A succession of critical remarks, such as those directed by a parent towards a misbehaving child.
SCOLDING, verb. Present participle of scold

Dictionary definition

SCOLDING, noun. Rebuking a person harshly.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope