an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
bawl out, Informal.to scold vociferously; reprimand or scold vigorously: Your father will bawl you out when he sees this mess.
Origin: 1400–50;late Middle English < Medieval Latinbaulāre to bark < Germanic; compare Old Norsebaula to low, baula cow, perhaps a conflation of belja (see bell2) with an old root *bhu-
mid-15c., from O.N. baula "to low like a cow," and/or M.L. baulare "to bark like a dog," both echoic. To bawl (someone) out "reprimand loudly" is 1908, Amer.Eng.