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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)
- 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)
- Of a sheep or goat, to make its characteristic cry; of a human, to mimic this sound.
- (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
- 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
- bare, naked
- poor
Inflection
Further reading
- “bleat (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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blent
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?nt
Verb
blent
- (archaic, poetic) simple past tense and past participle of blend
- 1873 August 1, J.A. Symonds "Poliziano's Italian Poetry" Fortnightly Review Vol.20 No.80 p.167:
- His merit as a stylist was this—that he blent the antique and the romantic, pure outline with sensual fulness.
- 1908, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
- (no date), There was such a nice frosty, Octobery smell in the air, blent with the delightful odor of newly plowed fields.
- 1873 August 1, J.A. Symonds "Poliziano's Italian Poetry" Fortnightly Review Vol.20 No.80 p.167:
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