▪ I. browbeating, vbl. n.
(ˈbraʊˌbiːtɪŋ)
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb browbeat; orig., it appears, = ‘scowling, frowning’.
| 1581 J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 486 b, To be afrayd of any her subjects lowring or browbeating. 1693 Locke Educ. 42 Constant Rebukes and Brow-beatings. 1765 Tucker Lt. Nat. II. 611 The discouragements and browbeating of censorious..persons. 1817 Jas. Mill Brit. India III. ii. 68 The brow-beating of a witness. |
▪ II. ˈbrowbeating, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That browbeats; bullying, insolent.
| 1816 Remarks Eng. Manners 63 Browbeating insolence. 1864 Max Müller Chips (1880) I. vii. 147 A cross-examination by a brow-beating lawyer. |