Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who bawls.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who bawls.

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  • noun Agent noun of bawl; one who bawls.

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  • noun a loud weeper
  • noun someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice

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Examples

  • He was, in effect, accusing the present incumbent of being another stapler-thrower, underling-bawler, back-of-the-seat thumper as Brown is alleged to have been.

    David Cameron is out of his tree | Simon Hoggart's sketch 2011

  • We are the only ones whom Cleon, the great bawler, does not badger.

    The Wasps 2000

  • Oh! you scoundrel! you impudent bawler! everything is filled with your daring, all Attica, the Assembly, the Treasury, the decrees, the tribunals.

    The Knights 2000

  • To reign until a filthier scoundrel than he arises; then he perishes and in his place the leather-seller appears, the Paphlagonian robber, the bawler, who roars like a torrent.

    The Knights 2000

  • I read, and kindled; nor found I what to do to those deaf and dead, of whom myself had been, a pestilent person, a bitter and a blind bawler against those writings, which are honied with the honey of heaven, and lightsome with Thine own light: and I was consumed with zeal at the enemies of this Scripture.

    The Confessions 1999

  • We are the only ones whom Cleon, the great bawler, does not badger.

    The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes

  • Oh! you scoundrel! you impudent bawler! everything is filled with your daring, all Attica, the Assembly, the Treasury, the decrees, the tribunals.

    The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes

  • According to these self-appointed connoisseurs, he was a bawler without taste, without method, a maker of absurd trills, an unimpassioned actor of little intelligence, and many other things besides.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

  • He is a bawler, who makes a great noise; and yet if he has a little imbecile cousin, he puts him in the priests college for me to make a chaplain of him.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

  • I read, and kindled; nor found I what to do to those deaf and dead, of whom myself had been, a pestilent person, a bitter and a blind bawler against those writings, which are honied with the honey of heaven, and lightsome with Thine own light: and I was consumed with zeal at the enemies of this Scripture.

    The Ninth Book 1909

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  • Wow, thanks Weirdnet! I had no idea just about everyone in the world is a bawler. (definition 2)

    August 2, 2008

  • With this whole "Weirdnet" thing...I'm discovering that (less...) often really is (more...).

    August 2, 2008