goat

goat

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English

Etymology

From Middle English goot, got, gat, from Old English gāt, from Proto-West Germanic *gait, from Proto-Germanic *gaits, from a substrate language.

The sense of lecherous man derives from the slang expression "horny as a goat".

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɡəʊt/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ɡoʊt/, [ɡoʊʔt̚]
  • (Scotland, Canada, North-East England) IPA(key): /ɡoːt/
  • (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /ɡɐʉt/
  • Rhymes: -əʊt

Noun

goat (plural goats)

  1. A mammal, Capra aegagrus hircus, and similar species of the genus Capra.
    1. (uncountable) The meat of the aforementioned animal.
  2. (slang) A lecherous man.
  3. (informal) A scapegoat.
    • 1997, "1997 World Series", Game 7, bottom 11th inning, TV broadcast on NBC Sports, early morning October 27, 1997; words by Bob Costas
      Tony Fernández, who has worn hero's laurels throughout the postseason including earlier in this seventh game of the World Series, now cruel as it may seem, perhaps being fitted for goat horns.
  4. (slang) A Pontiac GTO car.
  5. (speech recognition) A person who is not easily understood by a speech recognition system; contrasted with sheep.
  6. A fool, loser, or object of ridicule.
  7. (roller derby) A blocker who is isolated behind the opposing team's blockers, so as to slow down the pack.
  8. (acronym) Alternative letter-case form of GOAT (Greatest of All Time)

Synonyms

  • (lecherous man): See also Thesaurus:libertine
  • (scapegoat): See also Thesaurus:scapegoat

Holonyms

  • (group of goats): tribe, herd

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Abenaki: kots (from "goats")
  • Marshallese: koot
  • Rotokas: goti
  • Tongan: koti, kosi
    • Samoan: ʻoti
      • Rotuman: ʻoti
      • Tokelauan: oti

Translations

See also

  • chevon
  • ewe
  • herd
  • hircine
  • kid
  • ram
  • tribe
  • Appendix:collective nouns objects-G

Verb

goat (third-person singular simple present goats, present participle goating, simple past and past participle goated)

  1. (transitive) To allow goats to feed on.
  2. (transitive) To scapegoat.
  3. (transitive, roller derby) To isolate (an opposing blocker) behind one's own blockers, so as to slow down the pack.

Anagrams

  • Gøta, TOGA, Toga, atgo, toga

Namo

Noun

goat

  1. bone

References

  • transnewguinea.org, citing McElhanon, KA & Voorhoeve, CL. 1970. The Trans-New Guinea Phylum: Explorations in deep-level genetic relationships. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.

Swedish

Verb

goat

  1. supine of goa

West Frisian

Noun

goat c (plural goaten, diminutive goatsje)

  1. Alternative form of goate

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