bawl
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English baulen, from Old Norse baula (“to bellow”) 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.
In Kurdish bolle بۆڵە ("to nag") or ("to growl") ("to cry")
Pronunciation
edit- (UK) IPA(key): [bɔːɫ]
- (US) IPA(key): /bɔl/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /bɑl/
Audio (US): (file) - Homophone: ball
- Rhymes: -ɔːl
Verb
editbawl (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. […], volume (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
editTranslations
editto 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
editbawl (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
edita loud, intense shouting or wailing
Anagrams
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editAdjective
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References
edit- Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 41
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