tongue-lashing

1. 1.

   rebuking a person harshly

   Synonymschidingscoldingobjurgation

   Broaderrebuke

   Narrowerwig

Questions about tongue-lashing

What does tongue-lashing mean?

tongue-lashing means "rebuking a person harshly".

How many syllables are in tongue-lashing?

tongue-lashing has 4 syllables: ton-gue--la-shing. The stress falls on "gue-".

What is another word for tongue-lashing?

Close synonyms include chiding, scolding, objurgation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tongue-lashing a common word?

tongue-lashing is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.