Noun earful has 2 senses
- earful - an outpouring of gossip
--1 is a kind of gossip, comment, scuttlebutt
- castigation, earful, bawling out, chewing out, upbraiding, going-over, dressing down - a severe scolding
--2 is a kind of rebuke, reproof, reproval, reprehension, reprimand
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