bawl
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A drill instructor bawls at an officer candidate
English
Etymology
From Middle English baulen, from Old Norse baula (“to low”) and/or Medieval Latin baulō (“to bark”), both from Proto-Germanic *bau- (“to roar”), conflated with Proto-Germanic *bellaną, *ballijaną, *buljaną (“to shout, low, roar”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to sound, roar”). Cognate with Faroese belja (“to low”), Icelandic baula (“to moo, low”), Swedish böla (“to bellow, low”). More at bell.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key):
- (US) IPA(key): /bɔl/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /bɑl/
Audio (US) (file) - Homophone: ball
- Rhymes: -ɔːl
Verb
bawl (third-person singular simple present bawls, present participle bawling, simple past and past participle bawled)
- (transitive) To shout or utter in a loud and intense manner.
- commanders bawling
- 1929, Dashiel Hammett, The Maltese Falcon, New Yock: Vintage Books (Random House, published 1992, →ISBN, page 117:
- Spade took two long steps and caught Effie Perine by the shoulders. "She didn't get there?" he bawled into her frightened face
- (intransitive) To wail; to give out a blaring cry.
- 1859, George Meredith, chapter 5, in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. A History of Father and Son. , volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC:
- Why did you bawl out just as I was aiming? Who can aim with a fellow bawling in his ear? I've lost the birds through it.
- (intransitive) To weep profusely.
- children bawling
- mourners bawling
Derived terms
Translations
to shout or utter in a loud and intense manner
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to wail; to give out a blaring cry
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Noun
bawl (plural bawls)
- A loud, intense shouting or wailing.
- 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
- […] that clear soprano, in nursery, rings out a shower of innocent idiotisms over the half-stripped baby, and suspends the bawl upon its lips.
Translations
a loud, intense shouting or wailing
Anagrams
Zou
Pronunciation
Adjective
bawl
References
- Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 41