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; […]

Adjective

chiding (comparative more chiding, superlative most chiding)

1. Reproachful; critical.
   • 1592, Joannes Ludovicus, A very fruteful and pleasant boke called the Instruction of a christen woman, page 254:

     it is better to dwell in a desert Desolate country, than in a house with a chiding and an angry wife.

   • 1849, Charles Thomas Longley, The Bishop of Ripon Versus the Vicar of Harewood, page 49:

     And the said Mr. Hale did not say this in a chiding, quarrelsome, or brawling manner.

   • 1903, Karl Mantzius, A History of Theatrical Art in Ancient and Modern Times, page 86:

     How expressive this little parenthesis: "Sakuntalâ makes a chiding gesture with her finger"!

Derived terms

• chidingly
• unchiding

Anagrams

• diching