bawling-out
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Sylvester Hudson was coming down the passage and she was in no mind to miss the "bawling-out" of Dickie which this visit must portend.
From Hidden Creek by Katharine Newlin Burt
But I didn't wait to answer none of them; for I realized, also, that it was almost five o'clock, and I was supposed to report at Headquarters for a bawling-out at that time.
From Believe You Me! by Nina Wilcox Putnam
It was intended as a poultice to be applied after the "bawling-out," and she could not very well take it to him herself.
From Hidden Creek by Katharine Newlin Burt
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