bleat (verb)
41baa — intransitive verb (baaed; baaing) Etymology: imitative Date: circa 1586 to make the bleat of a sheep • baa noun …
42Onomatopoeia — For comic book villain, see Onomatopoeia (comics). For the Flobots album, see Onomatopoeia (album). A sign in a shop window in Italy pr …
43baa — 1. noun [bɑ:,bæ/|[bɑ:,bæ̰ː/|[bæ̰ˀæ̰ˀæ̰ˀæ̰ˀ/ The characteristic cry or bleating of a sheep. Syn: bleat, bleating 2. interjection [bɑ:,bæ/|[bɑ:,bæ̰ː/|[bæ̰ˀæ̰ˀæ̰ˀæ̰ˀ/ …
44blat — 1. verb a) To cry, as a calf or sheep; to bleat; to make a senseless noise; to talk inconsiderately. b) To produce an overrich or overblown sound on a brass instrument such as a trumpet, trombone, or tuba. 2. noun (In the context of Soviet or… …
45blatant — [16] Blatant appears to have been coined, or at least introduced, by the poet Edmund Spenser. In the Faerie Queene 1596 he describes how ‘unto themselves they [Envy and Detraction] gotten had a monster which the blatant beast men call, a dreadful …
46call — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. cry, shout, yell; summon, bid; convoke, muster; choose, appoint, elect; name, designate; visit, interview. n. summons, demand; shout, yell; signal; impulse, urge; visit. See choice, assemblage,… …
47noise — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. uproar, hubbub, din, racket, clamor, pandemonium; crash, rattle, clatter. See loudness, sound. Ant., silence, quiet. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A sound] Syn. sound, sonance, something heard, something… …
48voice — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. vocality; speaking or singing voice; inflection, intonation; tone of voice; ventriloquism, ventriloquy; lung power; vocal cords, vocalization (see speech); cry, expression, utterance, vociferation,… …
49belch — [OE] Belch first appears in recognizable form in the 15th century, but it can scarcely not be related to belk ‘eructate’, which goes back to Old English bealcan and survived dialectally into the modern English period. Belch itself may derive… …
50blare — (v.) late 14c., bleren to wail, possibly from an unrecorded O.E. *blæren, or from M.Du. bleren to bleat, cry, bawl, shout. Probably echoic, either way. Related: Blared; blaring. As a noun from 1809, from the verb …
