bleat
pronunciation
How to pronounce bleat in British English:
UK [bli:t]
How to pronounce bleat in American English:
US [blit]
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- Noun:
- the sound of sheep or goats (or any sound resembling this)
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- Verb:
- talk whiningly
- cry plaintively
Word Origin
- bleat (v.)
- Old English blætan, from West Germanic *bhle- (source also of Dutch blaten "to bleat"), of imitative origin (compare Greek blekhe "a bleating; the wailing of children," Old Church Slavonic blejat "to bleat," Latin flere "to weep"). Related: Bleated; bleating.
- bleat (n.)
- c. 1500, from bleat (v.).
Example
- 1. The bleat , the bark , bellow & roar .
- 2. Have bleat ask question comply time ask I ground bar la .
- 3. Because females showed renewed interest in the novel bleat , this indicates that females could tell the difference between the calls of two males , charlton says .
- 4. The lamb gave a faint bleat .
- 5. He heard the bleat of a goat .