单词 | out-bawl |
释义 | out-bawlv. transitive. To outdo in bawling or shouting. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry or shout [verb (transitive)] > outdo in shouting outcry1530 out-bawl1648 outshouta1661 outlung1756 1648 Hunting of Fox 16 Baal's Priests did outbawle Elias. 1705 C. Johnson Fortune in her Wits ii. i. 27 I know you have good Lungs, let the Devil make as great a Noise as he can, I fear it not but you will outbawl him. 1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives (1879) I. 567/1 I will outbawl the orators. 1840 J. H. Frere Knights 21 Overbear him and out-bawl him; bear him down and bring him under. 1897 ‘F. H. Williams’ Matin Bells iii. 153 Outbidding and outbawling poor men's pains. 1997 J. Davidson Courtesans & Fishcakes (1998) iii. 80 That's all he's good for, outbawling the bath attendants and the whores. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1648 |
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