wigging
noun [ S ] uk/ˈwɪɡ.ɪŋ/ us/ˈwɪɡ.ɪŋ/
UK old-fashioned informal斥责,严斥
an occasion when someone criticizes or speaks angrily to someone else about something that person has said or done
He gave me a wigging and told me I was a bad journalist. 他对我大发雷霆,说我是个糟糕的记者。
The country is expected to get a wigging from EU finance ministers for not doing enough to control its budget deficit. 估计这个国家会受到欧盟财政部长的指责,因为他们在控制预算赤字方面做得不够。
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- Poor Tim. It's your fault he got such a wigging.
- The finance minister was unamused to be given a schoolmasterish wigging by the head of the European Central Bank.
- He was genuinely hurt by the wigging he received from several Tory commentators.
- Unexpected pregnancy can and does happen to women and they don't need a wigging from doctors.