Crossword clues for bleating
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bleating \Bleat"ing\, a. Crying as a sheep does.
Then came the shepherd back with his bleating flocks
from the seaside.
--Longfellow.
Bleating \Bleat"ing\, n.
The cry of, or as of, a sheep.
--Chapman.
Bleat \Bleat\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bleated; p. pr. & vb. n. Bleating.] [OE. bleten, AS. bl?tan; akin to D. blaten, bleeten, OHG. bl[=a]zan, pl[=a]zan; prob. of imitative origin.] To make the noise of, or one like that of, a sheep; to cry like a sheep or calf.
Then suddenly was heard along the main,
To low the ox, to bleat the woolly train.
--Pope
The ewe that will not hear her lamb when it baas, will
never answer a calf when he bleats.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
n. A noise that bleats; inane or plaintive chatter. vb. (present participle of bleat English)
Usage examples of "bleating".
SFWA, Phil thinks, the Science Fiction Writers of America, Emmet is so right about them, the Swine Fucking Whores of Amerika, they may deny that they have anything to do with the pirate edition, but their bleatings about censorship and their insidious promotion of this blatant violation of my copyright proves they want to drag me down to their level.
But what was he doing here in Kinnikinick, wasting his time listening over and over to the same dreary bleatings from successive flocks of students, when he ought to be out in the world, battling for civic righteousness?
Whether they are defending the Soviet Union or bleating for Saddam Hussein, liberals are always against America.
Soon a confused sound was heard of bellowing and neighing and bleating, and about a mile to the south immense flocks appeared, rushing and tumbling over each other in the greatest disorder, as they hurried pell-mell along with inconceivable rapidity.
Republicans had just vanquished the gravest threat to freedom since Adolf Hitler, with liberals bleating throughout.
Thus it was that these two flocks of sheep, the majority, and the minority faced each other affrightedly, and while the leaders on one side and the guides on the other, grave and attentive, asked themselves anxiously what could be the mewing of the grumbling, of the Left on the one side, of the bleatings of the Right on the other, they ran the risk of suddenly feeling the four claws of the _coup d'etat_ fastened in their shoulders.
The quartermaster proved right, for as the cloud came nearer, quite a chorus of bleatings and neighings, and bel-lowings escaped from it, mingled with the loud tones of a human voice, in the shape of cries, and whistles, and vo-ciferations.
Such people would naturally imagine that the mighty and interminable procession which moved through its street night and day, with its confused roar of shouts and cries, its neighings and bellowings and bleatings and its muffled thunder-tramp, was the one great thing in this world, and themselves somehow the proprietors of it.