Bawl someone out
bawl someone out
verb phrase
To reprimand severely; rebuke; CHEW someone OUT (1900s+)
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to cry or wail lustily. to utter or proclaim by outcry; shout out: to bawl one’s dissatisfaction; bawling his senseless ditties to the audience. to offer for sale by shouting, as a hawker: a peddler bawling his wares. a loud shout; outcry. a period or spell of loud crying or weeping. Chiefly Midland and Western […]
- Bawler
to cry or wail lustily. to utter or proclaim by outcry; shout out: to bawl one’s dissatisfaction; bawling his senseless ditties to the audience. to offer for sale by shouting, as a hawker: a peddler bawling his wares. a loud shout; outcry. a period or spell of loud crying or weeping. Chiefly Midland and Western […]
- Bawling
to cry or wail lustily. to utter or proclaim by outcry; shout out: to bawl one’s dissatisfaction; bawling his senseless ditties to the audience. to offer for sale by shouting, as a hawker: a peddler bawling his wares. a loud shout; outcry. a period or spell of loud crying or weeping. Chiefly Midland and Western […]
- Bawn
a rocky stretch of foreshore on which caught fish are laid out to dry. a patch of grassland or meadow near a dwelling. Historical Examples Why, bawn, you are older by ten years than the child I used to know. The Story of Bawn Katharine Tynan Sho’s you bawn, he’s went a Injun-huntin’ wid my […]
- Bawneen
noun (Irish) a variant spelling of báinín Historical Examples Little clothes he had on, but on his head a quarter cap, and a sort of a bawneen about him. Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland, Second Series Lady Gregory Peter Joyce was perfectly content to wear a “bawneen” of homemade flannel and a […]