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[ verb ] cry plaintively
Examples "The lambs were bleating" Used in print (National Review, xi: 26...)As our planes land the war materiel that kills pro-Western Katangans , we stand supinely bleating while Nehru 's troops smash into a five-hundred-year-old district of our NATO ally , Portugal . |
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[ verb ] talk whiningly
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[ noun ] the sound of sheep or goats (or any sound resembling this)
Used in print (Marvin Schiller, "The Sheep's in the Meadow,"...)Cardboard noisemakers , substitutes for the unavailable tin models , were being hawked and bought at makeshift stands every few yards along Broadway , and one 's ears were continually serenaded by the horns ' rasps and bleats . Related terms |
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