bleat
(noun) the sound of sheep or goats (or any sound resembling this)
bleat, blate, blat, baa
(verb) cry plaintively; “The lambs were bleating”
bleat
(verb) talk whiningly
Source: WordNet® 3.1
bleat (plural bleats)
The characteristic cry of a sheep or a goat.
• (sheep's cry): baa, baaing, bleating
bleat (third-person singular simple present bleats, present participle bleating, simple past and past participle bleated)
Of a sheep or goat, to make its characteristic cry; of a human, to mimic this sound.
(informal, derogatory) Of a person, to complain.
• (make the characteristic cry of a sheep or goat): baa
• (complain): kvetch (US), moan, whinge (UK), whine
• ablet, blate, table
Source: Wiktionary
Bleat, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bleated; p. pr. & vb. n. Bleating.] Etym: [OE. bleten, AS. bl; akin to D. blaten, bleeten, OHG. blazan, plazan; prob. of imitative origin.]
Definition: 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.
Definition: A plaintive cry of, or like that of, a sheep. The bleat of fleecy sheep. Chapman's Homer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 November 2024
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