Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An animal that bleats; specifically, a sheep.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who bleats; a sheep.

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  • noun Agent noun of bleat; one who bleats.

Etymologies

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bleat + -er

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Examples

  • If she could be persuaded to load the dishwasher, put stuff in the frig that might spoil, wipe down the counters and maybe rinse the bleater/bellower's curly gray hairs out of the tub and bathroom sink it would be heavenly.

    Bed Rest MaryAnne Kolton 2012

  • A bleater and grief merchant so consumed with your own tedious notion of self importance {no doubt put there by your invisible friend} Your eagerness to try to pour scorn on my country was done with the same hunger as a vulture at a corpse.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • Actually prime bleater it's you that appears to have no true conception of what Zionism means and what it entailed - that much is evident from your inability to comprehend that Palestinians (Arabs) were ethnically cleansed from land on which they lived in order to clear the way for the Zionist project.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • Rolfston Redbriar, though, he was a real bleater — had been since they were all children gathering with the rest of the extended nobility for the Festival of the Eagle.

    Through Wolfs Eyes 2001

  • And he couldn't tell her because that would mark him a blubber-baby, bleater, babblemouth.

    Dragon Drums McCaffrey, Anne, 1926- 1979

  • And he couldn't tell her because that would mark him a blubber-baby, bleater, babblemouth.

    Dragon Drums McCaffrey, Anne, 1926- 1979

  • I've fired away all my cartridges, and we haven't nailed a single bleater.

    Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good Albert Walter Tolman

  • When you lie cold and stiffening, my pretty bleater.

    Krindlesyke Wilfrid Wilson Gibson 1920

  • From the fire the young woman took a red-hot running iron and moved toward the little bleater.

    Brand Blotters William MacLeod Raine 1912

  • If you’re a striker, strike, and if you’re a bleater, bleat!

    The Journey in the Wilderness 1889

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  • Scottish nickname for the cock snipe.

    May 13, 2011