chiding

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈtʃaɪdɪŋ/

Verb

1. present participle of chide#English|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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