regañina

f.

scolding, reprimand, dressing-down, reprehension.

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regañina

► nombre femenino

1 (reprensión) scolding, telling-off

2 (riña) quarrel, argument

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SF = regaño 1)

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(Méx) regañiza femenino (fam) scolding, talking-to (colloq), telling-off (colloq)

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= tongue-lashing, telling-off, dressing-down, reprimand.

Ex. Iranian President went to Columbia University expecting tough questions but instead he got a tongue-lashing from the students.

Ex. Similarly, a class that has been involved in a telling-off for any one of the myriad trivial transgressions their flesh is heir to can arrive at the next lesson aggressively uncooperative or giggly.

Ex. 'I just had a royal dressing down by Tilly'.

Ex. This article stresses the importance of praise as opposed to reprimands.

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(Méx) regañiza femenino (fam) scolding, talking-to (colloq), telling-off (colloq)

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= tongue-lashing, telling-off, dressing-down, reprimand.

Ex: Iranian President went to Columbia University expecting tough questions but instead he got a tongue-lashing from the students.

Ex: Similarly, a class that has been involved in a telling-off for any one of the myriad trivial transgressions their flesh is heir to can arrive at the next lesson aggressively uncooperative or giggly.

Ex: 'I just had a royal dressing down by Tilly'.

Ex: This article stresses the importance of praise as opposed to reprimands.

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regañina

feminine

(fam)

scolding, talking-to (colloq), telling-off (colloq)

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regañina, (Méx)

◊ regañiza sustantivo femenino (fam) scolding, talking-to (colloq), telling-off (colloq)

regañina sustantivo femenino scolding, telling-off

'regañina' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
bronca
- llevar
- reto

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regañina nf

[reprimenda] telling-off;

me echaron una regañina por volver a casa tarde I got told off for coming home late

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regañina

f fam

telling off