Definitions for bawl

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IPA: /bɔl/

Bawl is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 29 anagrams from letters in bawl (ablw).

Definitions for bawl

noun

1. a loud shout; outcry.
2. a period or spell of loud crying or weeping.
3. Chiefly Midland and Western U.S. the noise made by a calf.

Verb phrases

1. bawl out, Informal. to scold vociferously; reprimand or scold vigorously:

verb (used with object)

1. to utter or proclaim by outcry; shout out:
2. to offer for sale by shouting, as a hawker:

verb (used without object)

1. to cry or wail lustily.

Origin of bawl

1400-50; late Middle English Medieval Latin baulāre to bark Germanic; compare Old Norse baula to low, baula cow, perhaps a conflation of belja (see bell²)

Examples for bawl

He turned to the intercom and began to bawl orders into the microphone.

But si Tona could only bawl and bawl like a cry-baby, till her son got really angry.

He gave his orders in writing that he might not have to bawl to a deaf foreman.

He heard none of the words, but rejoined in a bawl: 'Mrs. Warwick!

Is the young lady deaf that you want to bawl like a harbour-master?

"I ain't got time to bawl," she flung back over her shoulder.

I know I'd bawl my eyes out even if it does say there aren't any tears in heaven.

As soon as he came out of ether, he began to bawl for his mother.

The bawl of privateersmen for the crew of a captured vessel to go below.

Out in the big corrals the cattle were beginning to stir and bawl.