1. The sound of sheep or goats (or any sound resembling this)
   "The bleat of the lost lamb guided the shepherd to its location"

1. Talk whiningly
   "The child bleated about wanting more candy"; "He bleated his complaints to anyone who would listen"
    
2. Cry plaintively
   "The lambs were bleating";
   - blat [N. Amer, informal], baa

Derived forms: bleats, bleating, bleated

Type of: complain, cry, emit, kick [informal], kvetch [N. Amer, informal], let loose, let out, moan, plain [archaic], sound off, utter

Encyclopedia: Bleat