Definitions for dressing-down

dressing-down dress·ing-down

Spelling: [dres-ing-doun]
IPA: /ˈdrɛs ɪŋˈdaʊn/

Dressing-Down is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 821 anagrams from letters in dressing-down (-ddeginnorssw).

Definitions for dressing-down

noun

  1. a severe reprimand; scolding.

Origin of dressing-down

1860-65, Americanism; noun use (with -ing1) of verb phrase dress down

Examples for dressing-down

And because he's given the priest a dressing-down, and broken an image worth a nickel, must he be shut up in a mad-house?

Ibbetson's wife gave him a dressing-down at tea-time for dragging Ibbetson into the row.

"Deeper'n the Whale-deep," said Dan, with a wink, as he set the gear for dressing-down.

Furthermore, she had given Mike the Angel a dressing-down that had been quite impressive.

Perhaps you gave her such a dressing-down, Billie, that shes turned over a new leaf.

Perhaps it was Roy's dressing-down of that youth that prompted Tom to be more decent to him than usual.

Coming out again, the grim and forbidding doctor ordered Jimmie into his car, and oh, what a dressing-down he did give him!

She must doff all gloves and give the little Doctor the dressing-down of his life.

That fellow I gave a dressing-down about India to up at the Pratts' there.

Word Value for dressing-down
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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