If you say that a child is bawling, you are annoyed because it is crying loudly. One of the toddlers was bawling, and the other had a runny nose. a bawling baby
If you bawl, you shout in a very loud voice, for example because you are angry or you want people to hear you. When I came back to the hotel Laura and Peter were shouting and bawling at each other Then a voice bawled: `Lay off! I'll kill you, you little rascal!' He tried to direct the video like a fashion show, bawling instructions to the girls. = yell Bawl out means the same as bawl. Someone in the audience bawled out `Not him again!'
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Etymologie
[ 'bol ] (verb.) 1570. Middle English, to bark, probably of Scandinavian origin; akin to Icelandic baula to low.