Is the young lady deaf that you want to bawl like a harbour-master?
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.
The bawl of privateersmen for the crew of a captured vessel to go below.
As soon as he came out of ether, he began to bawl for his mother.
I know I'd bawl my eyes out even if it does say there aren't any tears in heaven.
"I ain't got time to bawl," she flung back over her shoulder.
He turned to the intercom and began to bawl orders into the microphone.
Out in the big corrals the cattle were beginning to stir and bawl.
He heard none of the words, but rejoined in a bawl: 'Mrs. Warwick!
mid-15c., "to howl like a dog," from Old Norse baula "to low like a cow," and/or Medieval Latin baulare "to bark like a dog," both echoic. Meaning "to shout loudly" attested from 1590s. To bawl (someone) out "reprimand loudly" is 1908, American English. Related: Bawled; bawling.
