0 to complain angrily to someone
1 angry, complaining speech:
We were giving them an earful about it, and then they spring Lincoln on us.
With that he gets back to his Reserve Army scheme and he sure does give me an earful.
This is quite a mouthful and an earful to take in so late at night.
When one of her daughters kept trying to cover her with a blanket, she delivered an earful.
Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a snootful at the same time?
It builds and teases before bursting into an earful of cymbals and wailing its way to a messy finale.
He's going to get an earful tonight.
Further down, you find yourself in the fish and poultry section and the cacophony inside can be quite an earful, with shop owners and customers bargaining for a good deal.
