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单词 bleater
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bleatern.

/ˈbliːtə/
Etymology: < bleat v. + -er suffix1.
1. An animal that bleats, as a sheep, calf, etc.
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1570 T. Norton Disclosing of Great Bull sig. Aiii Some calues with blacke faces, as black soule and his fellowes common bleaters and railers at true religion.
1755 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 568/1 Swift o'er the lawns the little bleaters bound.
1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Bleater, the cock snipe, Ettr. For.; denominated from its bleating sound.
1855 R. C. Singleton tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. I. 87 Plunge The flock of bleaters in the healthful stream.
2. Thieves' slang: (see quot. 1608) Obsolete.
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1608 T. Dekker Lanthorne & Candle-light sig. K1 They that are cheated by Iack in a Boxe, are called Bleaters.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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