CHIDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chiding mean? 

• CHIDING (noun)
  The noun CHIDING has 1 sense:

1. rebuking a person harshly

  Familiarity information: CHIDING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHIDING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Rebuking a person harshly

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

chiding; objurgation; scolding; tongue-lashing

Hypernyms ("chiding" is a kind of...):

rebuke; reprehension; reprimand; reproof; reproval (an act or expression of criticism and censure)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chiding"):

wig; wigging (British slang for a scolding)

Derivation:

chide (censure severely or angrily)

 Context examples 

Ah, saucy! saucy, quoth he, with gentle chiding; on which the bear, uncertain and puzzled, dropped its four legs to earth again, and, waddling back, was soon swathed in ropes by the bear-ward and a crowd of peasants who had been in close pursuit.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)