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bleating

verbnounattested in dialogue

  • United States//ˈblitɪŋ//
  • United States/[ˈbliɾɪŋ]/
  • //ˈbliːtɪŋ//

A noise that bleats.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of bleatpresent participle and gerund of bleat

noun

  1. 1

    A noise that bleats.

    And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?

  2. 2

    Inane or plaintive chatter.

    Both men seemed to enjoy these contests, always laced with the tension caused by constant government bleating about the ABC's left-wing bias.

Forms

plural
bleatings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).