Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (orig. Aus.) nagging, non-stop chatter.

1948		R. Raven-Hart Canoe in Aus. 64: ‘An’ get an ear-bashin’ from the devil-dodger,’ a friend added.
1953		I. Bevan Sunburnt Country 130: Ear-bashing is talking.
1999		G. Seal Lingo 2: Although mostly taken for granted, the importance of the vernacular in everyday life is apparent from the number of Lingoisms describing or referring to it. chinwag; gasbag; have a yarn; bend your ear; cop an earful; earbashing.
2004		(con. 1960s-70s) T. Taylor Top Fellas 9/2: Old blokes staggered over [...] and give us an ear-bashing about how they too had been skinheads.
2011		J.J. Connolly Viva La Madness 171: You can tell he’s taken an ear-bashing all the way up [from Brighton].

2. a long reprimand, a scolding.

1946		E.A. Feldt Coastwatchers 156: The latter had no defence and took an earbashing, but had the satisfaction of having rescued sixteen people.
1951		Cusack & James Come in Spinner (1960) 333: This means an earbashing for me tonight, he thought dismally.
1997		C. Newland Scholar 71: He faced an ear-bashing from Shannon one evening.
2005		Jade LB Keisha the Sket (2021) 46: Teens dnt cum ere [i.e. a pharmacy] 2 gt an ear bashin or a stink attitude.
2004		P. Howard PS, I Scored the Bridesmaids 172: Sorcha ends up giving this poor goy [...] a twenty-minute ear-bashing on what she does and doesn’t want.
2010		L. Redhead Thrill City [ebook] I joined him on the balcony, the bad girlfriend, ready for my ear-bashing.
2011		IOL News 17 Nov. 🌐 The president has relished trying out quirky Australian slang [...] expressing a fondness for the term ‘ear bashing’.