scolding (n.)
- admonishment
- admonition
- beef
- bellyache
- bitch
- castigation
- chastisement
- chiding
- complaint
- correction
- dissent
- faultfinding
- grievance
- gripe
- griping
- groan
- grouse
- grumbling
- holler
- howl
- kick
- kicking
- lecture
- lesson
- murmuring
- objurgation
- peeve
- peevishness
- petulance
- protest
- querulousness
- rating
- rebuke
- reprehension
- reprimand
- reproach
- reprobation
- reproof
- reproval
- sermon
- spanking
- squawk
- upbraiding
Good to the heels the well-worn slipper feels
When the tired player shuffles off the buskin;
A page of Hood may do a fellow good
After a scolding from Carlyle or Ruskin.
