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chiding en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈt͡ʃaɪdɪŋ/
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Meanings
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Reproachful; critical.
How expressive this little parenthesis: "Sakuntalâ makes a chiding gesture with her finger"!
1903, Karl Mantzius, A History of Theatrical Art in Ancient and Modern Times, page 86:And the said Mr. Hale did not say this in a chiding, quarrelsome, or brawling manner.
1849, Charles Thomas Longley, The Bishop of Ripon Versus the Vicar of Harewood, page 49:it is better to dwell in a desert Desolate country, than in a house with a chiding and an angry wife.
1592, Joannes Ludovicus, A very fruteful and pleasant boke called the Instruction of a christen woman, page 254:
Forms
Deriveds
unchiding · chidingly
chiding en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈt͡ʃaɪdɪŋ/
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Meanings
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A scolding.
The cause I never knew; one would have thought the knowledge of the guilt and misery which followed his former career, and above all the chidings of a wife whom he loved would have deterred him; […]
1832, The Rural Repository Devoted to Polite Literature, volume 9, page 2:
Forms
Synonyms
jawing · going over · throughgoing · down the banks · rixation · rixation · berating · scolding · chiding · dirdum · objurgation · chockling · dressing down · berating · correption · browbeating · sermon · browbeating · lecture
chiding en · VERB
Pronunciation
- /ˈt͡ʃaɪdɪŋ/
- (Southern-England) audio
Meanings
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(form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of chide