Meaning of BLEAT
| Pronunciation: | | bleet
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- [n] the sound of sheep or goats (or any sound resembling this)
- [v] cry plaintively; "The lambs were bleating"
- [v] talk whiningly
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| | Synonyms: | | baa, blat, blate |
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| | See Also: | | complain, cry, emit, kick, kvetch, let loose, let out, plain, quetch, sound off, utter | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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