LECTURE, LECTURER
ADJECTIVES
1657 ► LECTURAL of the nature of a lecture → obs.
NOUNS
– CHIN MUSIC a lecture …Bk1934 college sl.
– 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
– LECTURETTE a short lecture …1867
– LESSON † a public reading; a lecture; also, a course of lectures …c1340
– ORDINARY †. a lecture read at regular or stated times …1432-50
– 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 college sl.
– SLEEPY TIME lecture class → 1964 US students’ sl. (Bk.)
NOUNS, PERSON
1563 ► LECTOR a reader; a ‘reader’ or lecturer in a college or university
1825 ► LECTURESS a female lecturer
1867 ► LECTRESS a female reader
1935 ► OLD BITCH a woman who lectures → tramps’ sl.
1935 ► OLD MARE a woman who lectures → tramps’ sl.
VERBS
1643 ► LECTURIZE to deliver lectures; to ‘hold forth’ → obs.
1670 ► JOBE to rebuke, to reprove, to reprimand in a long and tedious harangue; to lecture → colloq. obs.
1810 ► JAW to address censoriously or abusively; to scold or lecture a person
M19 ► EARWIG to lecture, to sermonize → sl.
L19 ► PI-JAW to give a moralizing lecture to → sl., arch.
1970 ► LIFER AWAY to harangue; to give a lecture; to reprimand → US Air Force sl. (Bk.)
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