bawl
verb (used without object)
to cry or wail lustily.
bawler
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a word derived from
bawl.
Example Sentences
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Jepson is an active, thoughtful coach, not a bawler and bellower.
From New York Times ● Jun. 24, 2020
The Liverpool midfielder is no bawler, and he can leave the shouting to a former captain, John Terry, at the heart of the defence or, if selected, the 39-year-old goalkeeper David James.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2010
I was a bawler, screaming in fear at all the appropriate moments, which delighted them.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
Does nature, even in my octogenarian carcase, run too strong that I must be still a bawler and a brawler and a treader upon corns?
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Another Stentorian bawler, and even a greater nuisance in the same neighbourhood, seems to his unfortunate hearers to deal in “Cats’-meat,” though his real cry is “Cabbage-plants.”
From The Cries of London Exhibiting Several of the Itinerant Traders of Antient and Modern Times by John Thomas Smith
