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(informal, derogatory) Of a person, to say things of little importance to the listener.

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She came skipping to me just now, clapping her little hands and bleating about how very, very happy she was, dear Mrs Travers. The silly young geezer. I nearly conked her one with my trowel.

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1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:

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I can't have, for instance, Heracles come bleating to me at some future date, asking please can he have his bow back, and getting all stroppy when I refuse to tell him where it is.

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2016, James Lovegrove, Age of Heroes‎https://www.google.com/books/edition/Age_of_Heroes/X1DlDAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22bleating%22&pg=PT94&printsec=frontcover, Solaris, →ISBN: