tongue-lash

verb

To scold, to chew out.

Meanings

verbtongue-lash (third-person singular simple present tongue-lashes, present participle tongue-lashing, simple past and past participle tongue-lashed)

present singular third person tongue-lashes · participle present tongue-lashing · participle past tongue-lashed · past tongue-lashed

  1. To scold, to chew out.

Rhymes & wordplay

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