Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
a lengthy rebuke;
- Example: "a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"- Example: "the teacher gave him a talking to"[syn: lecture, speech, talking to]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
talking to
n 1: a lengthy rebuke; "a good lecture was my father's idea of
discipline"; "the teacher gave him a talking to" [syn:
lecture, speech, talking to]