Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who bawls.
Wiktionary
- n. Agent noun of bawl; one who bawls.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who bawls.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a loud weeper
- n. someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice
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.”
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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.”
“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.”
“We are the only ones whom Cleon, the great bawler, does not badger.”
“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.”
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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
“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.”
“At every turn, too, the bawler will be loud and active, bawling suspicions, bawling accusations, bawling panic, or just simply bawling.”
“God, if I can I will make this boy enlightened, should I live to do it; or at least not at the mercy of every vagrant prophet and bawler of conventional ideas.”
“The old bawler will take the fly with a swirl -- see if he does not!”
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dontcry With this whole "Weirdnet" thing...I'm discovering that (less...) often really is (more...). Aug 1, 2008
chained_bear Wow, thanks Weirdnet! I had no idea just about everyone in the world is a bawler. (definition 2) Aug 1, 2008