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telling-off

telling-off noun: an instance of telling someone off, a reprimand or scolding.

Noun

telling-off (plural tellings-off or telling-offs)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) An instance of telling someone off, a reprimand or scolding.

telling-off meaning in Malayalam

telling-off in Malayalam

reprimand, admonishment, rebuke
ശാസന, കർശനമായ ഔദ്യോഗിക ശാസന, താക്കീത്, ഉഗ്രശാസന, ഗർഹണം, ഹൃണീയ

Forms of telling-off

pluraltellings-off
pluraltelling-offs

Questions about telling-off

What does telling-off mean?
Telling-off means an instance of telling someone off, a reprimand or scolding.
What is telling-off in Malayalam?
Telling-off in Malayalam is ശാസന, കർശനമായ ഔദ്യോഗിക ശാസന, താക്കീത്. See Telling-off meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is telling-off?
Telling-off is a noun.
What is the plural of telling-off?
The plural of telling-off is tellings-off.

Words near telling-off in the dictionary

  1. telling the time
  2. telling the truth
  3. telling the truth and shaming the devil
  4. telling time
  5. telling volumes
  6. telling-off
  7. telling-offs
  8. telling-to
  9. tellingly
  10. tellingness
  11. tellings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: telling-off (page history and authors); telling-off (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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