chiding

English

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃaɪdɪŋ/
  • Rhymes: -aɪdɪŋ

Verb

chiding

  1. present participle and gerund of chide

Noun

chiding (plural chidings)

  1. A scolding.
    • 1832, The Rural Repository Devoted to Polite Literature, volume 9, page 2:
      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; […]

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