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BAWLING OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bawling out mean? 

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

1. a severe scoldingplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


BAWLING OUT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A severe scolding

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

bawling out; castigation; chewing out; dressing down; earful; going-over; upbraiding

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

rebuke; reprehension; reprimand; reproof; reproval (an act or expression of criticism and censure)


 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)



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