RAIL, RAILING
ADJECTIVES
► CONVICIATORY wrangling, railing; reproachful, abusive → 1611 obs.
► CONVICIOUS reproachful, abusive, railing → 1630 obs.
► FULMINANT violently condemning or denouncing; fiercely indignant; railing, vituperative → 1578
► OBLATRANT railing, reviling, scolding → 1601 obs.
NOUNS
► OBLATRATION a barking at a person, a railing, a scolding → c1560 obs.
► RAIL an act of railing or reviling → a1529
► RAILLERY railing, reviling → 1709 obs.
► YATTER noisy or angry talk; brawling, scolding, grumbling, continual railing or carping → 1827 Sc. & Eng. dial.
NOUNS – PERSON
► SKELLAT a scolding, railing woman; an ill-natured, shrewish woman → 1810 Sc.
VERBS
► BAIRGE ► BERGE to speak in a loud and angry manner; to scold, to rail, to taunt loudly → 1887 Sc.
► BECALL to abuse, to call names, to rail at → 1682 Eng. dial.
► CALLET to scold, to rail → a1673 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► FARE to ‘go on’ impetuously, to rage, to rail → 1603 obs.
► FULMINATE to rail or speak violently; to rage, to inveigh → 1620
► HEASCEN to rail, to utter taunts → c1000 obs.
► LEATHER to scold, to rail at, to criticize severely → 1866 Sc.
► OBLATRATE to rail against one, to scold → 1623 obs.
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