LekhoriLekhoripresent participle and gerund of chide
A scolding.
The cause I never knew; one would have thought the knowledge of the guilt and misery which followed his former career, and above all the chidings of a wife whom he loved would have deterred him; […]
Reproachful; critical.
it is better to dwell in a desert Desolate country, than in a house with a chiding and an angry wife.
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