coating n.
a scolding.
Look Long Upon a Monkey 100: Did you good to give a bloke a bit of a coating; made you feel somebody. | ||
Hazell and the Three-card Trick (1977) 22: It was the first time Dot had given me a real coating. | ||
Lowspeak 41: Coat – to tell off, or to scold, as in ‘I gave him a right coating’. |