BAWLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bawling mean? 

• BAWLING (noun)
  The noun BAWLING has 1 sense:

1. loud cries made while weeping

  Familiarity information: BAWLING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BAWLING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Loud cries made while weeping

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

bawling; wailing

Hypernyms ("bawling" is a kind of...):

crying; tears; weeping (the process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds))

 Context examples 

As we watched him he looked across at a boy who was bawling out the latest edition of the evening paper, and running over among the cabs and busses, he bought one from him.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But the mingled reality and mystery of the whole show, the influence upon me of the poetry, the lights, the music, the company, the smooth stupendous changes of glittering and brilliant scenery, were so dazzling, and opened up such illimitable regions of delight, that when I came out into the rainy street, at twelve o'clock at night, I felt as if I had come from the clouds, where I had been leading a romantic life for ages, to a bawling, splashing, link-lighted, umbrella-struggling, hackney-coach-jostling, patten-clinking, muddy, miserable world.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

When Lady Russell not long afterwards, was entering Bath on a wet afternoon, and driving through the long course of streets from the Old Bridge to Camden Place, amidst the dash of other carriages, the heavy rumble of carts and drays, the bawling of newspapermen, muffin-men and milkmen, and the ceaseless clink of pattens, she made no complaint.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)