Reprimand a Scots man breaking plate (8)
I believe the answer is:
admonish
'reprimand' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'a scots man breaking plate' is the wordplay.
'scots man' becomes 'mon' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'breaking' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'plate' becomes 'dish' (I've seen this before).
'mon' going within 'dish' is 'dmonish'.
'a'+'dmonish'='ADMONISH'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for admonish that I've seen before include "Chide, reprove" , "Tell off" , "Rebuke, tick off" , "Chide or reprimand" , "Warn sternly" .)