Bleat vs Bleah - What's the difference?
bleat | bleah |
Of a sheep or goat, to make its characteristic cry.
(informal) Of a person, to complain.
(slang, US) Expresses negative feeling. The quality of the emotion expressed is more negative than that of 'blah' and has a slight feeling of disgust, verging on nausea.
* ''You bought that green station wagon? Bleah !
* 2005 , William Safire, The Ick Factor'' (in ''The New York Times , 25 September 2005)
As a noun bleat
is the characteristic cry of a sheep or a goat.As a verb bleat
is of a sheep or goat, to make its characteristic cry.As an interjection bleah is
(slang|us) expresses negative feeling the quality of the emotion expressed is more negative than that of 'blah' and has a slight feeling of disgust, verging on nausea.bleat
English
Alternative forms
* (Scotland)Synonyms
* (sheep's cry ) baa, baaing, bleatingVerb
(en verb)- The last thing we need is to hear them bleating to us about organizational problems.
Synonyms
* (1): baa * (2): kvetch (US''), moan, whinge (''British ), whineAnagrams
* * * ----bleah
English
Interjection
(en interjection)- Reviewing my list of ickisms - yuck'', ''yecch'', ''bleah'' , ''ew'' and ''ick - the linguist [David McNeill] observes, "Negative words having to do with disgust seem to be embodied in the experience of expelling unwanted, possibly poisonous, materials from the mouth.