to bleat

Examples

• All

• In a small pen farther off, moving restlessly and bleating anxiously, was a herd of piebald goats.

  Fiction book (1991)

• The hired men, most of them, bleated with alarm.

  Fiction book (1995)

• The lamb bleated again, and then his mother began to call.

  Fiction book (1999)

• - It's covered in wool and it bleats.

  A Few Best Men (2011)

• The goat arrived, and D'Cey walked the bleating animal back to the original kill site at the edge of the Iron Wood.

  Fiction book (2000)

• The poor creature bleated pathetically when it saw Lefarn.

  Fiction book (2001)

• Soon, twenty mischievous goats trotted through the gate, bleating plaintively.

  Fiction book (1998)

• The little lamb bleats whenever it feels hungry.

• As we walked by the farm, we could hear the goats bleating for their feed.

• The young goat bleated plaintively when it was separated from its mother.

Synonyms

B

to baa

vsto bleat

5.9

To make the short sound a sheep or lamb makes

is also used for weak or plaintive human speech or complaint

B

to blat

vsto bleat

• UK

9.6

To make a loud, crying sound like a lamb or goat

is more wavering and weaker sounding soft and plaintive

How Loud

to wail

84 3.2

to bleat

5 6.0

whine

• Informal

28 3.0

to murmur

11 4.2

Surface Forms

Etymology