Bawl Definition
- to shout or call out
- to scold angrily
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Origin of Bawl
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From Middle English bawlen, from Old Norse baula (“to low”) and/or Medieval Latin baulō (“bark”, verb), both from Proto-Germanic *bau- (“to roar”), from Proto-Indo-European *bau- (“to bark”), conflated with Proto-Germanic *bellaną, *ballijaną, *buljaną (“to shout, low, roar”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to sound, roar”). Cognate with Icelandic baula (“to moo, low”), Swedish böla (“to bellow, low”). More at bell.
From Wiktionary
Middle English bawlen to bark from Medieval Latin baulāre to bark (probably of Scandinavian origin) or from Old Norse baula to low (of imitative origin)
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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