Bleat

Word BLEAT
Character 5
Hyphenation bleat
Pronunciations /ˈbliːt/

Definitions and meanings of "Bleat"

What do we mean by bleat?

The characteristic cry of a goat or sheep. noun

A sound similar to this cry. noun

A whining, feeble complaint. noun

To utter the characteristic cry of a goat or sheep. intransitive verb

To utter a sound similar to this cry, especially a whine. intransitive verb

To utter in a whining way. intransitive verb

The cry of a sheep, goat, or calf; also, of a snipe. noun

To cry as a sheep, goat, or calf; also, as a snipe.

To make the noise of, or one like that of, a sheep; to cry like a sheep or calf. intransitive verb

A plaintive cry of, or like that of, a sheep. noun

The characteristic cry of a sheep or a goat. noun

Of a sheep or goat, to make its characteristic cry. verb

Of a person, to complain. verb

The sound of sheep or goats (or any sound resembling this) noun

Cry plaintively verb

Talk whiningly verb

The characteristic cry of a sheep or a goat.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Bleat

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The word "bleat" in example sentences

I don't know if you care or not but a great doe bleat is Primos Original Can Doe in estrus ❋ Unknown (2009)

This consists in imitating, with a small instrument called a bleat, the cry of the fawn, so as to lure the doe within reach of the rifle. ❋ Unknown (1835)

I say occasionally because the majority of what I tweet (some would say "bleat") covers subjects near and dear to my sophomoric soul: genitals, bowel movements or just plain obscure references to even more obscure behavior both real and fictional that I (and my cadre of equally depraved followers) find amusing. ❋ Steven Weber (2011)

To post on personal matters is a high-risk activity because there is this danger of coming across as woe-is-me and no one wants to read what I've previously described as "bleat". ❋ Unknown (2008)

The "bleat" or goat voice, a particular fault of French singers, proceeds from the habit of forcing the voice, which, when it is of small volume, cannot stand the consequent fatigue of the larynx. ❋ Enrico Caruso (1897)

There was always a halfpenny underneath the geranium pot in the window-sill for the child whose eye caught sight of the first swallow, redstart or sandpiper; or whose ear first recognised the clarion call of the cuckoo, or the evening "bleat" of the nightjar on the bracken-mantled fells at the end of May. ❋ Frederic William Moorman (1895)

Pretence of any kind was as the red rag; "bleat" was the unpardonable sin; the man who was "human" was the man to be praised. ❋ Elizabeth Robins Pennell (1895)

But however that may have been, "bleat" and "human" were the two words ever recurring like a refrain in the columns of the _National Observer_, ever the beginning and end of argument in the heated atmosphere of Buckingham ❋ Elizabeth Robins Pennell (1895)

He was still _clicking_ high overhead, but soon alighted silently within twenty yards of where I was standing, and commenced to "bleat," prefacing each ❋ Bradford Torrey (1877)

For the first time, too, since the bad weather had set in, was to be heard the incessant bleat which is music to the ears of a New Zealand sheep-farmer. ❋ Unknown (1871)

_ -- Many children, long after they have overcome acataphasia and agrammatism, delight in inserting between words sounds, syllables, and words that do not belong there; e. g., they double the last syllable of every word and put an _eff_ to it: _ich-ich-eff_, _bin in-eff_, etc., or they make a kind of bleat between the words ❋ William T. Preyer (1869)

That is the sentiment of the shadow home secretary who says people are being forced to "bleat" to the police when they could deal with minor grievances themselves. ❋ Unknown (2009)

They're from a generation that doesn't "bleat," as Ron calls it. ❋ Unknown (2009)

On a related observation: if health care were not such a serious topic, I would find it amusing that people like Carol continue to bleat like sheep that the current health system is the best in the world. ❋ Unknown (2009)

'It's God's punishment!, they bleat about the unfortunate. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They bleat bits from their new talk-radio ingested manifestos with the same nutty fervor as their civil rights era-forged forebears — the conspiracy-addled kooks from the old John Birch Society. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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