bleat (verb)

  • 31bleating\ heart — (n.phr.) An intensely visceral yearning or hankering for. The expression is a portmanteau derived from bleeding heart (of bleeding heart dove) and bleating (pleading sound of an ewe). Works especially well in conjunction with I love ewe.… …

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  • 32bleating\ heart — (n.phr.) An intensely visceral yearning or hankering for. The expression is a portmanteau derived from bleeding heart (of bleeding heart dove) and bleating (pleading sound of an ewe). Works especially well in conjunction with I love ewe.… …

    Dictionary of american slang

  • 33bloat — I. adjective Etymology: Middle English blout, blote soft, pliable, from Old Norse blautr soft, weak; akin to Old English blēat miserable Date: 14th century bloated, puffy II. verb Date: 1677 transitive verb 1 …

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  • 34roar — I. verb Etymology: Middle English roren, from Old English rārian; akin to Old High German rērēn to bleat Date: before 12th century intransitive verb 1. a. to utter or emit a full loud prolonged sound b. to sing or shout with full force 2. a. to… …

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  • 35Jabberwocky — For other uses, see Jabberwocky (disambiguation). The Jabberwock, as illustrated by John Tenniel Jabberwocky is a nonsense verse poem written by Lewis Carroll in his 1872 novel Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There, a sequel to… …

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  • 36List of English words of Dutch origin — This is a list of words of Dutch language origin. However, note that this list does also include some words of which the etymology is uncertain, and that some may have been derived from Middle Low German equivalents instead or as well. Some of… …

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  • 37goat — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ billy, male ▪ female, nanny ▪ wild ▪ mountain … OF GOATS …

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  • 38lamb — noun 1 young sheep ADJECTIVE ▪ newborn ▪ little ▪ sacrificial (usually figurative) ▪ I am not going to be a sacrificial lamb on the altar of political correctness. VERB + LAMB …

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  • 39sheep — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ hill (BrE), mountain ▪ lost (often figurative), stray ▪ the doleful cries of lost sheep ▪ He sees it as his duty to take care of the lost sheep …

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  • 40prosaic — prosaic, prosy, matter of fact all denote having a plain, practical, unimaginative, unemotional character or quality. Prosaic implies an opposition to poetic in the extended sense of that word. Although the term suggests the quality of prose, it… …

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