LECTURE, LECTURER
ADJECTIVES
► LECTURAL of the nature of a lecture → 1657 obs.
NOUNS
► CHIN MUSIC a lecture → 1934 students’ sl. (Bk.)
► DISH OF RAILS a lecture or scolding, esp. from a married woman to her husband → L18 sl.
► EARBASH a conversation; an unwanted lecture; a tirade → 1944 Aust. sl.
► JAW cheeky or impudent talk; also, a talk, a speech, a lecture, an address → 1748
► JAWBATION a long and tedious harangue; a severe lecture or reprimand; a tedious rebuke or reproof; a scolding → 1840 Eng. & Amer. dial.
► JOBATION a rebuke, a reproof, especially one of a lengthy and tedious character; a prolonged scolding, a lecture; also, a long discussion → 1687 colloq.
► JUNIPER LECTURE a severe pungent ‘lecture’ or reprimand → 1706 colloq., obs.
► LARRY a scolding, a lecture → 1790 Eng. dial.
► LECTION a professional or tutorial lecture → 1563-7 obs.
► LECTURETTE a short lecture → 1867
► LESSON a public reading; a lecture; also, a course of lectures → c1340 obs.
► ORDINARY a lecture read at regular or stated times → 1432-50 obs.
► PI-JAW a moralizing lecture or exhortation, esp. one given to children by a teacher or parent → 1891 arch.sl.
► RAP a rebuke or reprimand; a lecture; blame, responsibility → 1777 sl.
► RAZZ a good talking-to; an harangue, esp. by a master to a boy → 20C Eton sl.
► SLEEP, THE a college lecture → 1940s US students’ sl.
► SLEEPY TIME lecture class → 1964 US students’ sl. (Bk.)
NOUNS – PERSON
► LECTOR a reader; a ‘reader’ or lecturer in a college or university → 1563
► LECTRESS a female reader → 1867
► LECTURESS a female lecturer → 1825
► OLD BITCH a woman who lectures → 1935 tramps’ sl.
► OLD MARE a woman who lectures → 1935 tramps’ sl.
VERBS
► EARWIG to lecture, to sermonize → M19 sl.
► JAW to address censoriously or abusively; to scold or lecture a person → 1810
► JOBE to rebuke, to reprove, to reprimand in a long and tedious harangue; to lecture → 1670 colloq. obs.
► LECTURIZE to deliver lectures; to ‘hold forth’ → 1643 obs.
► LIFER AWAY to harangue; to give a lecture; to reprimand → 1970 US Air Force sl. (Bk.)
► PI-JAW to give a moralizing lecture to → L19 sl., arch.
► WHALE AWAY to talk to lecture continuously or vehemently → 1945 US Western sl. (Bk.)
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