awol

See also: AWOL, a.w.o.l., and A.W.O.L.

English

Adjective

awol (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of AWOL
   • 1949, Nelson Algren, The Man with the Golden Arm:

     Back in the city's littered bivouac he walked among the tenements of home like an awol private returning to barracks from which his old outfit had long ago convoyed and scattered for keeps.

Noun

awol (plural awols)

1. Alternative form of AWOL

Anagrams

• alow

Central Dusun

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *habəl (“weave cloth”).

Verb

awol

1. to weave

Navajo

Noun

awol

1. (anatomy) marrow

Inflection

possessives of awol

	singular	duoplural	plural
1st person	shiwol	nihiwol	danihiwol
2nd person	niwol	nihiwol	danihiwol
3rd person	biwol
4th person (3o)	yiwol
4th person (3a)	hawol
Indefinite (3i)	awol