baal

¹ American  

[bahl] / bɑl /

adverb

Australian Slang.

1. no; not.

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Baal ² American  

[bey-uhl, beyl] / ˈbeɪ əl, beɪl /

noun

plural

Baalim

1. any of numerous local deities among the ancient Semitic peoples, typifying the productive forces of nature and worshiped with much sensuality.

2. (sometimes lowercase) a false god.

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Baal British  

/ bɑːl /

noun

1. any of several ancient Semitic fertility gods

2. Phoenician myth the sun god and supreme national deity

3. (sometimes not capital) any false god or idol

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Other Word Forms

• Baalish adjective

Etymology

Origin of baal¹

Australian Pidgin English < Dharuk bí-al

Origin of Baal²

From the Hebrew word baʿal lord

Example Sentences

“Why, aunt, baal means none, or not any.”

From The Dingo Boys The Squatters of Wallaby Range by Stacey, W. S. (Walter S.)

Marmy, baal you take 'em yarroman like 'it Hinchinbrook; my word, plenty of alligator sit down along of water.

From Australian Search Party by Bates, Henry Walter

I haue lefte me seuen thowsand in Israell / of which neuer man bowed his knees vnto baal / nor kissed hym with his mouthe.

From A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful by Peter Martyr; Wherunto is Added A Sermon made of the Confessing of Christ and His Gospel and of the Denying of the same, by Henry Bullinger by Martyr, Peter

No, no, boss!" cried Tommy, energetically, "baal you bogey longa that waterhole.

From Tom Gerrard by Becke, Louis

One hat baal brokum, allasame white fellow hat.

From Stories by English Authors: The Orient (Selected by Scribners) by Roberts, Morley