Word.ws English Dictionary

tongue-lash

tongue-lash verb: to scold, to chew out.

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.

Forms of tongue-lash

third-person singular presenttongue-lashes
present participletongue-lashing
past participletongue-lashed
pasttongue-lashed

Words that rhyme with tongue-lash

48 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about tongue-lash

What does tongue-lash mean?
Tongue-lash means to scold, to chew out.
What part of speech is tongue-lash?
Tongue-lash is a verb.
What is the past tense of tongue-lash?
The past tense of tongue-lash is tongue-lashed.

Words near tongue-lash in the dictionary

  1. tongue-fence
  2. tongue-fencer
  3. tongue-fencing
  4. tongue-in-cheek
  5. tongue-in-chic
  6. tongue-lash
  7. tongue-lashed
  8. tongue-lashes
  9. tongue-lashing
  10. tongue-lashings
  11. tongue-lolling

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tongue-lash (page history and authors). 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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “tongue-lash.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/tongue-lash. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.