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Definition of Bawler
1. Noun. Someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice.
Generic synonyms: Communicator
Specialized synonyms: Crier
Derivative terms: Bawl, Roar, Roar, Screech, Shout, Yell
2. Noun. A loud weeper. "Their new baby is a real bawler"
Definition of Bawler
1. n. One who bawls.
Definition of Bawler
1. Noun. Agent noun of bawl; one who bawls. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bawler
1. one that bawls [n -S] - See also: bawls
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bawler
Literary usage of Bawler
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lectures to my students: a selection from addresses delivered to the by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1875)
"Well, sir, Mr. bawler led us blessedly into that passage, ... "Well, sir, Mr.
bawler said it was a very dangerous thing to hear legal preachers, ..."
2. The Diary of Master William Silence: A Study of Shakespeare & of Elizabethan by Dodgson Hamilton Madden (1897)
"Master Ford of Windsor was a bawler, giving tongue and busy before he found the
scent to ... I cannot find him,' was the confession of the convicted bawler; ..."
3. A New Pocket Dictionary of the French and English Languages: In Two Parts by Thomas Nugent, J. Ouiseau (1830)
"... sf. cry, clamour Crieur, se. s. a bawler; crier, undertaker Crime, sm. crime,
sin Crime de lèze-majesté, high- treason ..."
4. Dictionnaire anglais-franca̧is: et français-anglais by Abel Boyer, Nicholas Salmon (1821)
"Crier au meurtre, to cry out murder. Crier, va to cry or proclaim. CRIF.PR.
SE, s m. et f. Crier or bawler. Crieur public, common crier. < IT-M . sm crime, ..."
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