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beal¹

  • /biːl/ US, UK

Rhymes with -iːl

Where it comes from

From Middle English beel, bele, from Old English bȳle (“boil, carbuncle, bile”), from Proto-West Germanic *būlijā, from Proto-Germanic *būlijǭ (“swelling”), from *būlǭ (“swelling, bump, boil”). More at boil.

noun beals

  1. dialectal, obsolete A small inflammatory tumor; pustule.

beal²

  • /biːl/ US, UK

Rhymes with -iːl

Where it comes from

From Middle English belen, from bele (see above).

verb beals · bealing · bealed

  1. Pennsylvania, Scotland, Western, dialectal To gather matter; swell; come to a head, as a pimple; fester; suppurate.

beal³

  • /biːl/ US, UK

Rhymes with -iːl

Where it comes from

From Middle English belien, from Old Norse belja (“to bellow, roar”).

verb beals · bealing · bealed

  1. UK, dialectal To bellow, roar, or shout.

Beal⁴

  • /biːl/

Where it comes from

Named after several places in England, from Old English beo (“bee”) + hyll (“hill”).

proper noun Beall

  1. A surname from Anglo-Norman. Dr. Weber and her colleagues are the latest custodians of the Beal seed viability experiment: a multicentury attempt to figure out how long seeds can lie dormant in the soil without losing their ability to germinate.
  2. A small village in Kyloe parish, Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NU0642).
  3. A village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Selby district (OS grid ref SE5325).
  4. An unincorporated community in Vincennes Township, Knox County, Indiana, United States.

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Closest in meaning: bubukle, kibe, pock, bile, blob, blain, boil, bell, blotch, balbuties, lie bump, bead, bleb, beave, bunny, bee sting

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@misc{beal_2026,
  title = {beal},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/beal},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}