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earbashing noun- an insistent barrage of chatter; constant nagging AUSTRALIA, 1945
- Usually travelling in pairs, these sundowners spent so much time in each other’s company that “magging” or “earbashing” was something that just couldn’t be tolerated. — Bill Wannan, Bullockies, Beauts and Bandicoots, p. 72, 1960
- So I had to be carried out again, and the coppers really give me an earbashing, but I don’t mind that–it’s the fair dinkum bashing I don’t like. — Ray Denning, Prison Diaries, p. 64, 1978
- If a player was bald, ginger, fat, thin, tall, short or, worst of all, ex-West Ham, he’d receive an ear-bashing for ninety non-stop minutes[.] — Martin King and Martin Knight, The Naughty Nineties, p. 113, 1999
- a harsh reprimand NEW ZEALAND
- — Louis S. Leland, A Personal Kiwi-Yankee Dictionary, p. 36, 1984
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