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Synonyms for baa

Grammar : Noun

Spell : ba, bah

Phonetic Transcription : bæ, bɑ

Définition of baa

Origin : imitative sound of a sheep, attested from 1580s, but probably older, as baa is recorded before this a name for a child's toy sheep.

As in bleat : noun sheep sound

Example sentences :

At last the third day also passed, and the fisherman had not even said baa.
Extract from : « Roumanian Fairy Tales » by Various

When he called "Nanny" it answered him instantly with a plaintive "Baa!"
Extract from : « A Boy's Town » by W. D. Howells

So they treat you like a fool, and you put up with it and baa after them!
Extract from : « Pelle the Conqueror, Complete » by Martin Anderson Nexo

But outwardly he was hopelessly tame; outwardly—baa, baa, baa.
Extract from : « Crome Yellow » by Aldous Huxley

I would like to baa at him again, but I dare not with all these foreign folk.
Extract from : « By What Authority? » by Robert Hugh Benson

He was the baby, and they called him that because "Baa" was the first thing he ever said.
Extract from : « Five Children and It » by E. Nesbit

The meaning and the form of poetry is to him as intelligent as the baa of a sheep is to you.
Extract from : « Roads of Destiny » by O. Henry

"Let's baa at him, and tell him what an old goose he is," said the other.
Extract from : « Billy Whiskers' Adventures » by Frances Trego Montgomery

It took but a second for him to regain his feet and baa for his brother.
Extract from : « Billy Whiskers' Adventures » by Frances Trego Montgomery

About Baa, Puzzole, and Naples, we have an opportunity of remarking the truth of these last words.
Extract from : « Observations on Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna, and Other Volcanos » by William Hamilton

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