blowing-up n.1
a scolding.
High Life in N.Y. I 250: The ’pothecary raly felt as if he should bust, and he gin her a purty decent blowing up. | ||
Picking from N.O. Picayune 121: I thought I could stand a blowing up pretty well. | ||
(con. 1840s–50s) London Labour and London Poor I 45/2: I never get more than a blowing up. My parents is very fair to me. | ||
Johnny Ludlow II 232: George Roper wants a good blowing-up, he do. | ||
Vandover and the Brute (1914) 79: Oh, you ought to have heard the blowing up I gave my tailor! | ||
Boy’s Own Paper 10 Dec. 168: We shall probably have an awful blowing up to-morrow. | ||
Sporting Times 22 Apr. 1/3: You’ve saved a blowing-up, I guess! / and you’ll own that you deserve it, for you’ve had an extra glass. | ‘Off the Mark’||
Cappy Ricks 102: I’ll give him a blowing-up he’ll remember. |