Reverse Dictionary: CASTIGATE

NOUNS
► BATTING castigation; a beating → 1863 Eng. dial.
► HIPSY-DIPSY a castigation; a ‘skelping’ on the buttocks (skelping – a smack, slap, or blow given with the open hand on the buttocks) → 1881 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► PAYS castigation; punishment; thrashing → 1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.

VERBS
► HAVE OVER to castigate, to reprimand, to complain at → 1936 Amer. dial.
► LASH to castigate in words; to rebuke, to satirize, to vituperate → 1590
► NAIL ONE TO THE CROSS to castigate thoroughly; to punish or otherwise deal with someone in a final or decisive manner → 1899 Amer. dial.
► NAIL ONE TO THE MAST to castigate thoroughly; to punish or otherwise deal with someone in a final or decisive manner → 1925 Amer. dial.
► NAIL SOMEONE TO THE BARN DOOR to punish, to defeat in a decisive act, to castigate → 2006 sl., orig. US
► PAIK to castigate, to beat, to strike, to belabour, to punish → c1639 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► PUT (ONE) THROUGH A COURSE OF SPROUTS to castigate, to thrash; to give one a good drubbing → 19C Amer. dial.
► RAISE HELL to castigate or criticize thoroughly and in anger, to reprimand severely →1920s sl.
► RAISE HELL AND STICK A PROP UNDER IT to castigate or criticize thoroughly and in anger, to reprimand severely →1920s sl.
► RAISE MERRY HELL AND PUT A SHINGLE UNDER IT to castigate or criticize thoroughly and in anger, to reprimand severely → 1920s sl.
► SWINGE to chastise, to castigate → 1560 obs.