jobation

[prettygoodword]

jobation (joh-BAY-shun) - n., a A scolding, a long tedious rebuke.


From the Biblical Job. Now chiefly British usage.

---L.

Comments

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

I knew that word, but now that I look at it afresh, I am amazed that something like "jobations and jeremiads" is not a clichéd turn of phrase.

[prettygoodword.livejournal.com]

Now that you've pointed it out, I am too.

---L.