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A drill instructor bawls at an officer candidate

From 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.

bawl (third-person singular simple present bawls, present participle bawling, simple past and past participle bawled)

  1. (transitive) To shout or utter in a loud and intense manner.
    commanders bawling
    • 1900, T. Jenkins Hains, Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate"‎[1]:
      He jumped upon the saddle with another yell as he pushed the machine before him, and the next instant was whirling down the thoroughfare with the rapidity of an express train, bawling for people to "Stand clear!"
    • 1902, Robert W. Chambers, The Maid-at-Arms‎[2]:
      "I'm lord of this manor!" he bawled. "I'm Patroon Varick, and I'll do as I please!"
  2. (intransitive) To wail; to give out a blaring cry.
    Coordinate terms: (cattle sense) croon, bellow, low, moo
    children bawling
    cattle bawling
  3. (intransitive) To weep profusely.
    children bawling
    mourners bawling

to shout or utter in a loud and intense manner

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bawl (plural bawls)

  1. 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.

a loud, intense shouting or wailing

bawl

  1. to shed tears; to weep
  2. to complain
  3. to negotiate (often a price)
    bawl dung
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bawl (stem II **bàwl)

  1. do
  2. make
  3. work