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 ofbawl ; 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
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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
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We are the only ones whom Cleon, the great bawler, does not badger.
The Wasps 2000
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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
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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
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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
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We are the only ones whom Cleon, the great bawler, does not badger.
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes
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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
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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
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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
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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
chained_bear commented on the word bawler
Wow, thanks Weirdnet! I had no idea just about everyone in the world is a bawler. (definition 2)
August 2, 2008
dontcry commented on the word bawler
With this whole "Weirdnet" thing...I'm discovering that (less...) often really is (more...).
August 2, 2008