houspiller.
to chide or scold someone harshly, usually accompanied by pulling and shaking, berate
Meaning & usage
to chide or scold someone harshly, usually accompanied by pulling and shaking, berate
to criticise
to rebuke, reprehend
to mistreat, torment, mob; to cause worry or distress
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Middle French houssepillier (“to mistreat by shaking or growling”) and Norman gouspiller (“to shake, thrash, ill-treat”), both from a root *housp-, *gousp- (“to scorn, scold, reproach”), from or akin to Old English hosp (“reproach, insult”), Old English ġehyspan (“to deride, scorn, mock, reproach”) (—Diez), or from Proto-West Germanic *husp, *husk, from Proto-Indo-European *kūd- (“to mock”). Related to Old English husc (“mockery, scorn, insult, derision”), Old High German hosc (“invective, censure, mockery, travesty”), Norwegian dialectal huta (“to shout at, treat contemptuously”). Related to English forhush.
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