1. A scolding
   "The employee received a wigging from his boss for being late to work";
   - wig [Brit, informal]

1. Censure severely or angrily
   "The deputy wigged the Prime Minister";
   - call on the carpet [US, informal], take to task, rebuke, rag [informal], trounce, lecture, reprimand, jaw [informal], dress down [informal], call down [informal], scold, chide, berate, bawl out [informal], chew out [N. Amer, informal], chew up [N. Amer, informal], have words, lambaste, lambast, ream [N. Amer, informal], carpet [Brit, informal]

Derived forms: wiggings

Type of: chiding, criticise [Brit], criticize, damn [informal], knock [informal], objurgation, pick apart, scolding, tongue-lashing

Encyclopedia: Wig, Rudolph