beul
Meaning
- (masculine) an executioner, torturer, one who carries out executions and other judicial corporal punishments
- (figuratively,masculine) a cruel person, in act or sadistic streak
Concepts
hangman
executioner
torturer
doer
executor
brute
bully
Frequency
Gender
♂️ Masculine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/bøːl/
Etymology
From Middle Dutch buel, earlier buedel, from Old Dutch *budil, from Proto-West Germanic *budil, from Proto-Germanic *budilaz. Doublet of pedel.
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