baa
pronunciation
How to pronounce baa in British English:
UK [bɑ:]
How to pronounce baa in American English:
US [bɑ]
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- Noun:
- the cry made by sheep
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- Verb:
- cry plaintively
Word Origin
- baa
- imitative sound of a sheep, attested from 1580s, but probably older, as baa is recorded before this a name for a child's toy sheep. Compare Latin bee "sound made by a sheep" (Varro), balare "to bleat;" Greek blekhe "a bleating;" Catalan be "a sheep."
Example
- 1. But why stop with breaking up baa ?
- 2. And I was really tawdry personality don 't take baa .
- 3. Using heathrow 's runways more flexibly would allow another 60000 flights a year , says colin matthews of baa .
- 4. Baa wants to solve the problem by building a third runway at heathrow .
- 5. After operational fiascos at heathrow , baa 's near-monopoly positions in london and scotland are coming under official scrutiny .