Possible Clues:

• Made verbal attacks
• Launched a verbal attack
• Attacked yob casing a building
• Attacked verbally
• Attacked with words or blows - or whip?
• Spent money freely
• Rebuked hooligan running round a hut
• Spent extravagantly, getting castigated
• Acquiring a shack, oaf spent extravagantly
• Was open-handed - or used one's fists?