three-name (English, verb)
expansion: three-name (third-person singular simple present three-names, present participle three-naming, simple past and past participle three-named)
Senses:
glosses: The act of vocatively referring to someone (usually a child in one's family) using their full legal name (first, middle, and last) in order to emphasize a scolding.
tags: US
slang
Forms:
form: three-names
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: three-naming
tags: participle
present
form: three-named
tags: participle
past
form: three-named
tags: past