bawl
bawl (bôl) vi. vt.
[[ME baulen (found only in ger.) < ML baulare, to bark & ? ON baula, to low like a cow; both of echoic orig.]]
1 to shout or call out noisily; bellow; yell
2 to weep and wail loudly
–n.
1 an outcry; bellow
2 a noisy weeping
–bawl out
1 to shout or call out
2 to shout or call out[Slang] to scold angrily
–bawl´er n.
