Definitions for bleats

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Spelling: [bleet]

IPA: /blit/

Bleats is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 194 anagrams from letters in bleats (abelst).

Definitions for bleats

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 bleats

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

Examples for bleats

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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?

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