Quick Need Help

[Oat Bucket Farm]

It's late, my brain is fried. How would you describe the noise of goats at milk time? Bleating? Baaing really does not look or sound right for what I need. Hollering and bellowing, don't work either. Think um, maybe something like an Alpine.

[Goat Servant]

Urgently Starving, tortured...you know, much more than bleats or MAAAA, Thesarus sez;screech schriek.
din, clamor
But you are looking for the equivilent of MAAA right? Something that decribes the right sound?

[Oat Bucket Farm]

Yes. Just one word that will describe the baaing that they do.

[noeskimo]

i had to,or tried to explain this myself, talking to a 4yo:horse says neigh, cow says moo, sheep says baa and goats say? What do you tell a kid that goats say so they won't confuse them with sheep?

[Oat Bucket Farm]

That is kind of what I am running into. I guess I will just go with bleating, even though I'm not real happy with it.

[Alice In TX/MO]

Blatting?
Singing?
Calling?
Hollering?

[nehimama]

Can't help with an appropriate word for you, but SO happy you don't have a goat in trouble!

[Ranger]

Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!! !!!!!!!!!

[Oat Bucket Farm]

Originally Posted by nehimama

Can't help with an appropriate word for you, but SO happy you don't have a goat in trouble!

Sorry, I guess I should have put that it was a non -emergency in the title.

Thank Alice, for the suggestions. For now, bleating seems to fit the scene the best, even if it does sound more like something a sheep would do.

[CarolT]

You said Alpine, so yodeling.... Or maybe naaaadeling?

[Kshobbit]

meh heh eh in a higher pitch than sheep which has a very low sounding maaaah

[Oat Bucket Farm]

I know how I would describe if the sound they made was the focus of the scene, but it's just background noise, in a noisy, busy scene. So it needs to be a single word that quickly describes the noise.

[DWH Farm]

Probably not what your looking for but my step dad invented his own word: "Bellerin". which is redneck for "Bellowing"

[The Tin Mom]

Screaming is how we describe Skunky asking for dinner - but I know it doesn't work. Hope you find something that does the trick. Looking forward to finding out why you need to know this.....

[Oat Bucket Farm]

LOL, oh you already know why I need to know this

[Oat Bucket Farm]

Here is the scene, maybe it will help in finding the word.

No one noticed them as they left the boarding house. The sun was just rising and the winding streets were still cloaked in shadows. The smell of baking pita bread filled the air. Several women baked pitas in small outdoor ovens. They would stuff them with eggs, cheese, cabbage and goat meat and sell them to men headed out to work in the vineyards or the fisheries. Kellinar normally bought several each morning. The smell reminded him that they hadn’t taken time to eat, though Serena had made several of the stuffed breads and packed them away in her bag.

Women moved around, watering tiny gardens where spinach and cabbages grew and feeding chickens housed in pens crammed up against the sides of buildings. The cries of waking babies and the strident challenges of roosters filled the air. They mixed with the bleating of goats waiting to be milked before being let out of their cramped holding pens and herded out to pasture for the day. Together it created noisy yet familiar atmosphere in the narrow streets. Kellinar felt a pang of regret. This was all he’d ever known.

[Alice In TX/MO]

Oh, lordy me. Words. I love words. My mom loved words. My kids love words.

I'm going to dream about this.

It's WONDERFUL.

Bleating works. You could add a modifier.... soft bleating? Melodious bleating?

[Oat Bucket Farm]

If you think bleating works for the scene, then I will leave it be.

[nehimama]

Well, around here, it's mostly RAUCOUS bleating!

[Rechellef]

Yes, bleating as we that is part of the name of our farm and between the sheep and the goats, we hear a lot of it. One of my doelings acts like she is DYING when it close to feeding time. I can hear her in the house with the windows shut.