pillory/ˈpɪləɹi/EtymologyFrom Middle English pilory, pillorie, from Old French pilori, pellori, which is either from Old Occitan espilori or Latin pīla (“pillar”).nounA framework on a post, with holes for the hands and head, used as a means of punishment and humiliation.“Maires and Maceris that meanes be betwene / The Kynge and the comon to kepe the lawes / To pũnyſhen on pyleries and pynning ſtoles / Bruſterrs and bakeſters, bochers and cokes / For theſe ar mẽ on this mold þᵉ moſt harme worketh / To the pore people that percel mele byghe[...]”verbTo put in a pillory.To subject to humiliation, scorn, ridicule or abuse.“There was no malice in my rubbish; but it laughed at the captain. It laughed at a man to whom such a thing was new and strange and dreadful. I did not know then, though I do now, that there is no suffering comparable with that which a private person feels when he is for the first time pilloried in print.”To criticize harshly.“The breakthrough came through Torres who, pilloried for his miss against Manchester United a week earlier, scored his second goal of the season.”