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say it: bawld
bald is an adjective and verb meaning "with no effort to conceal". It carries 4 recorded senses.
lacking hair on all or most of the scalp
“a bald pate”
“a bald-headed gentleman”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for bald come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.