[Sửa]Reprimand, chide, reprove, upbraid, criticize, censure,find fault (with), rebuke, reproach, lecture, berate, rate,castigate, take (someone) to task, find fault with, rap(someones) knuckles, slap (someones) wrist, Colloq bawl out,dress down, give (someone) hell, give (someone) what for, jumpon (someone), jump down (someones) throat, call (someone) toaccount, bring (someone) to book, let (someone) have it withboth barrels, give (someone) a piece of (ones) mind, give(someone) a tongue-lashing or a talking-to, give (someone) ahard time, rake or haul (someone) over the coals, tell (someone)off, tick (someone) off, skin (someone) alive, call or have(someone) on the carpet, light or rip or tear or lace or sailinto (someone), US chew out, jump all over (someone), Britcarpet: When their mother scolded them, they began to cry.
[Sửa]Nag, shrew, termagant, virago, fishwife, beldam,harridan, hell-cat, fury, amazon, tigress, Xanthippe, Colloqbattleaxe: In the old days, they used to take scolds, tie themin a chair at the end of a pole, and dunk them in a pond tillthey cooled off.