"tongue-lash" meaning in English

See tongue-lash in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: tongue-lashes [present, singular, third-person], tongue-lashing [participle, present], tongue-lashed [participle, past], tongue-lashed [past]
Rhymes: -æʃ Head templates: {{en-verb}} tongue-lash (third-person singular simple present tongue-lashes, present participle tongue-lashing, simple past and past participle tongue-lashed)
  1. To scold, to chew out.
    Sense id: en-tongue-lash-en-verb-M40QMtum Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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