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bleat

English

Alternative forms

  • blate, blait (Scotland)

Etymology

From Middle English bleten, from Old English bl?tan (to bleat), from Proto-West Germanic *bl?tijan, from Proto-Germanic *bl?tijan? (to bleat). Cognate with Scots blete, bleit, West Frisian bâlte, blaaien, blêtsje (to bleat), Dutch blaten (to bleat), Low German bleten (to bleat), German blaßen, blässen (to bleat).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?bli?t/
  • Rhymes: -i?t

Noun

bleat (plural bleats)

  1. The characteristic cry of a sheep or a goat.

Synonyms

  • (sheep's cry): baa, baaing, bleating

Translations

Verb

bleat (third-person singular simple present bleats, present participle bleating, simple past and past participle bleated)

  1. Of a sheep or goat, to make its characteristic cry; of a human, to mimic this sound.
  2. (informal, derogatory) Of a person, to complain.
    The last thing we need is to hear them bleating to us about organizational problems.

Synonyms

  • (make the characteristic cry of a sheep or goat): baa
  • (complain): kvetch (US), moan, whinge (UK), whine

Translations

Anagrams

  • ablet, blate, table

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *blautaz, whence also Old High German bl?z (naked), Old Norse blautr. More at blouse.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /blæ???t/

Adjective

bl?at

  1. wretched

Declension

Descendants

  • Middle English: *blete, *bleet
    • Scots: bleat, blait, bleet

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian bl?t, from Proto-Germanic *blautaz.

Adjective

bleat

  1. bare, naked
  2. poor

Inflection

Further reading

  • “bleat (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

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blea

English

Etymology

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Noun

blea (uncountable)

  1. The part of a tree that lies immediately under the bark; the alburnum or sapwood.

Anagrams

  • -able, Abel, Able, Bale, Beal, Ebla, Elba, able, albe, bael, bale, beal

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