Reverse Dictionary: REPROOF

ADJECTIVES
► CORREPTORY conveying reproof, rebuking, chiding, reprehensive → 1659 obs.

ADVERBS
► ADMONITORILY with warning or reproof → 1845

INTERJECTIONS & PHRASES
► APSE UPON THEE! an exclamation of surprise or reproof → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► IF YOU DON’T MIND used as a form of reproof, esp. to someone who barges in, pushes one aside, etc. → L17 sl.
► UPS! an exclamation of reproof → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► YAPS! ► YEPS! an exclamation of reproof → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► YAPS UPON YOU! an exclamation of reproof → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)

NOUNS
► BY-WIPE an indirect reproof or sarcasm → 1641
► CARSEESE a reproof, strict examination → 1898 Sc. (Bk.)
► CORREPTION a chiding, reprehension, reproof, reproach, rebuke → c1380 obs.
► CURTAIN-LECTURE a reproof given by a wife to her husband in bed → 1633
► CURTAIN-SERMON a reproof given by a wife to her husband in bed → 1611 obs.
► DICHELS reproof, correction; a beating, a drubbing → 1794 Sc.
► FLEA IN ONE’S EAR, A a scolding, a rating; a sharp reproof; a rebuff; chiefly used in the phrase ‘to go (send, etc.) away with a flea in one’s ear’ → 1826
► HEARING a ‘lecture’, a scolding, reproof → 1816 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► HEERICAN a severe reproof, a scolding, a ‘dressing down’ → 1920 Sc.
► IMPROOF rebuke, reproof, censure → 1590 obs.
► 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.
► NAP a gibe, a sarcastic remark or reproof; a jeering way of speaking → 1885 Sc.
► NIZZIN a sharp reproof, a dressing-down → c1850 Sc. 
► ONDINGING a torrent of words, vehement reproof → 1828 Sc.
► RACKET a reproof → 1818 Sc.
► RATING a scolding, rebuke, reproof → 1577
► SISERARY a severe rebuke, reproof, or scolding; a sharp blow; a torrent of language → 1771
► TEARING an angry reproof or denunciation; a thorough ‘dressing-down’ → 1901 Sc.
► TELLING a scolding, reproof; warning, advice → 1867 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► THRAWN a scolding, a chiding; a sharp reproof → 1905 Ireland obs. (Bk.)
► UPBRAY a reproach or reproof → 1590 obs.
► WIGGING a severe rebuke, reproof, or reprimand; a scolding → 1805 colloq.
► WORD OF A SORT, A a sharp or angry word or reproof → 1796
► YANK a cutting remark, a word of reproof → 1857 Sc.

VERBS
► TWIG to give such correction as may be inflicted with a twig; to give a somewhat sharp, but not angry and severe reproof → 1550 obs. exc. Eng. dial.