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  • noun Plural form of bleater.

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Examples

  • Surround yourself with the little bleaters during the lambing season by booking a stay on a farm, where pretty rural accommodation will become your bucolic maternity ward.

    Pastures new: UK spring break ideas 2011

  • You better not be rude about Stephen Fry, Rod, or you'll be engulfed by an even bigger Twit-twat posse of indignant lefties and lumpen luvvietariat bleaters.

    Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010

  • April 30th, 2008 6: 37 pm ET to rescind the federal fuel tax. would increase demand with the remaining short supply. thereby increasing prices. the benefit of this gas holiday will be negligible to the consumer and detrimental to the government's future economic plan. but hey. you bleaters like it when the fat cats throw you a chew toy. why else would this country be so dangerously myopic.

    Obama ad criticizes gas tax plan 2008

  • After every president since Jimmy Carter giving platform to these bleaters, it is high time that other, more inclusive religious figures were given higher visibility – if indeed the country still believes plumping religion is necessary —

    Obama Defends Warren Choice - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • This is a time when the moaners and bleaters who tell us that the CD is dead have to have brief second thoughts, because no one wants to unwrap an MP3 file on Christmas morning.

    That is not an anthem Brian Clegg 2009

  • There will always be the heavy lidded, permatanned lizards like Boehner, the shrill bleaters like Graham and the hopelessly psychopathic dead-enders like Coulter and Limbaugh to attack progress and sanity, to stand in the way of any attempt to fix the very thing they require to be broken in order to perpetuate their degenerate lifestyles.

    Steven Weber: Stormy Weather 2009

  • When are the bleaters and swivel eyed anachronistic show boaters going to realise, this Party is no longer the natural Party of Government and if it going to be it has to include many who currently vote Liberal or have liberal views.

    Hold fast ! Newmania 2007

  • This is a time when the moaners and bleaters who tell us that the CD is dead have to have brief second thoughts, because no one wants to unwrap an MP3 file on Christmas morning.

    Archive 2009-11-01 Brian Clegg 2009

  • I can demonstrate the power and soundness of “physicalism” quite well, but not to mindless bleaters from the old schools of philosophy.

    Wells: “Darwinism is Doomed” because we keep making progress - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • When Morse leased this and put five thousand bleaters upon the feeding ground the sentiment against him grew very bitter.

    Brand Blotters William MacLeod Raine 1912

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