About The Word Bleat
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Bleat
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What's The Definition Of Bleat?
[n] the sound of sheep or goats (or any sound resembling this)
[v] cry plaintively; "The lambs were bleating" [v] talk whiningly Synonyms | Synonyms for Bleat: baa | blat | blate Related Terms | Find terms related to Bleat: bark | bawl | bay | beef | bell | bellow | bellyache | bitch | blare | blat | blate | blow off | bray | call | caterwaul | crab | cry | fuss | give tongue | give voice | howl | low | meow | mew | mewl | miaow | moo | neigh | nicker | pule | roar | screak | scream | screech | squall | squawk | squeak | squeal | troat | ululate | wail | whicker | whine | whinny | yammer | yap | yawl | yawp | yelp | yip | yowl See Also | complain | cry | emit | kick | kvetch | let loose | let out | plain | quetch | sound off | utter Bleat In Webster's Dictionary \Bleat\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Bleated}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Bleating}.] [OE. bleten, AS. bl?tan; akin to D. blaten,
bleeten, OHG. bl[=a]zan, pl[=a]zan; prob. of imitative
origin.]
To make the noise of, or one like that of, a sheep; to cry
like a sheep or calf.
Then suddenly was heard along the main, To low the ox,
to bleat the woolly train. --Pope
The ewe that will not hear her lamb when it baas, will
never answer a calf when he bleats. --Shak.
\Bleat\, n. A plaintive cry of, or like that of, a sheep. The bleat of fleecy sheep. --Chapman's Homer. |
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