Definitions for bleat

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Spelling: [bleet]

IPA: /blit/

Bleat is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 86 anagrams from letters in bleat (abelt).

Definitions for bleat

noun

1. the cry of a sheep, goat, or calf.
2. any similar sound:
3. foolish, complaining talk; babble:

verb (used with object)

1. to give forth with or as if with a bleat:
2. to babble; prate.

verb (used without object)

1. to utter the cry of a sheep, goat, or calf or a sound resembling such a cry.

Origin of bleat

before 1000; Middle English bleten, Old English blǣtan; cognate with Dutch blaten, Old High German blāzen; akin to Latin flēre to weep

Examples for bleat

I hear him bleat now,” said Jack,—“about the blackest sheep I have ever seen.

But though on that evening a basso did bleat, it may be that he was not bubonic.

More like the bleat of an innocent calf,” said Roberts—“eh, Bracy?

If he was to blither, it was only fair that she should bleat back.

And as I enter the little village, I am greeted by the bleat of sheep and the low of the kine.

"I hate all this bleat about the Middle Ages," Gilbert exclaimed.

They called and called, but the goat did not bleat back to them.

I heard the bleat of a lamb or kid, and it pierced the melancholy roar of the sea.

In the fields the lambs ceased to bleat, the horses to neigh and the cows to low.

A jumble of packing-cases with something twisted in a corner to signify a bleat.