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baal /baːl/ adv. Australian Pidgin Obs. (Spelling variants: bael, bail, bale, etc.) [From Sydney language biyal.] Used to express negation. Cf. borak adv. Also as adj.

1790 D. Southwell Lett. of Daniel Southwell (MS, British Lib., MS 16383), 149 Bei-yal or bey-al, no.   1803 J. Grant Narr. Voyage N.S.W. 108 They began a conversation  ..  using many words which seemed to resemble the Sydney dialect, such as Bail, signifying No, and Maun to take away or carry off.   1818 J. Holt Mem. (1838) 154 He said ‘Bail bail’, that is, never fear.   1827 Monitor (Sydney) 13 Jan. 276/3 Mr J. desired Oleinthebrook to place his hands behind him, that he might tie them together. ‘Baal tie me!’ said the savage, and sprang from them like an arrow from a bow.   1828 Sydney Gaz. 2 Jan. 3/3 Casting his eyes wistfully around him, and giving a melancholy glance at the apparatus of death, he said, in a tone of deep feeling, which it was impossible to hear without strong emotion, ‘Bail more walk about’, meaning that his wanderings were over now.   1830 R. Dawson Present State Aust. 65 The word bael means no, not, or any negative.   1843 Arden’s Sydney Mag. Oct. 130 His Honor then, in a most impressive manner, passed sentence of death upon the prisoner. When the sentence was explained to him, he shook his head and said ‘bail me’ (it was not I).   1844 Bee of Aust. (Sydney) 2 Nov. 4/1 The learned member for Sydney: Who in baal gammon style of eloquence will no doubt, Let my Lord Stanley’s mother know ‘that he is out’.   1848 Atlas (Sydney) IV. 121/2 Nay the aboriginal jabber is pressed into the service, as if the forty or fifty thousand words of the standard dictionaries in our language were inadequate to express or dissemble all our ideas ‘  ..  payala, patter, bel’ etc. are all reckoned elegances of a particular kind among certain classes of society.   1859 W. Burrows Adventures Mounted Trooper 102 The answer he got, in his own lingo, was, ‘suppose you no cut waddy (wood) you bale get tucker’.   1870 C.H. Allen Visit to Qld. 183 There are certain native terms used by the whites also as a kind of colonial slang, such as ‘yabber’, to talk; ‘budgeree’, good; ‘bale’, no.   1876 J.A. Edwards Gilbert Gogger 115 Baail that fellor—something fool; yarraman plenty cooler; Misses Gilber baail jarrand;  ..  budgeree rideum their fellor.   1897 Bulletin (Sydney) 3 July (Red Page), ‘Bale’ was the pure negative. ‘Bo-rak’ carried the idea of good-humored repudiation or denial—something equivalent to our ‘gammon!’ or ‘no dash fear!’   1914 T.C. Wollaston Spirit of Child 109 ‘Baal spying’, I answered swiftly in the old lingo.   1923 T. Hall Short Hist. Downs Blacks 34 ‘Baal you cry’, ‘Baal you tell ’em Master’ was all they could say.