setdown

Meaning

1. The act of setting down something or someone.
2. The act of descending onto a surface (of an aircraft or spacecraft).
3. The humbling of a person by act or words.
4. A retort or a reproof that has a humbling effect.
5. (obsolete,slang) A sit-down meal eaten by a tramp; a charitable meal provided to a tramp in the giver's home.
6. (obsolete,slang) A person’s buttocks.

Synonyms

decrial

diatribe

revilement

scorch

Etymology

* Deverbal from set down.
* (buttocks): See set as US regional form of sit, and see sit down.