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goʊtgoat
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Princeton's WordNet
goat, caprine animalnoun
any of numerous agile ruminants related to sheep but having a beard and straight horns
butt, goat, laughingstock, stoogenoun
a victim of ridicule or pranks
Capricorn, Goatnoun
(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Capricorn
Capricorn, Capricorn the Goat, Goatnoun
the tenth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about December 22 to January 19
Wiktionary
goatnoun
Any of various ruminant mammals, of the genus Capra, related to the sheep.
goatnoun
A lecherous man.
goatnoun
A scapegoat
goatverb
To allow goats to feed on.
goatverb
To scapegoat.
Etymology: From gote, goot, got, gat, from gat, from gaits, from gʰaid-. Cognate with gait, gayt, geit, geit, geit, Geiß, Danish ged, get, geit, haedus, заѩць, ձի, हय, जिहीते.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
GOATnoun
A ruminant animal that seems a middle species between deer and sheep.
Etymology: gat, Saxon and Scottish.
Gall of goat, and slips of yew. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.
You may draw naked boys riding and playing with their paper-mills or bubble-shells upon goats, eagles, or dolphins. Henry Peacham, on Drawing.
The little bear that rock’d the mighty Jove,
The swan whose borrow’d shape conceal’d his love,
Are grac’d with light; the nursing goat ’s repaid
With heaven, and duty rais’d the pious maid. Thomas Creech.
ChatGPT
goat
A goat is a hoofed mammal, scientifically known as Capra aegagrus hircus, largely domesticated and primarily raised for its milk, meat, and fur. Belonging to the Bovidae family, goats are known for their hardiness and ability to adapt to various habitats, ranging from mountainous regions to deserts. They are also characterized by their horns, beards, and a four-chambered stomach for digesting rough food. There are numerous different breeds of goats, each with unique characteristics.
Webster Dictionary
Goatnoun
a hollow-horned ruminant of the genus Capra, of several species and varieties, esp. the domestic goat (C. hircus), which is raised for its milk, flesh, and skin
Etymology: [OE goot, got, gat, AS. gt; akin to D. geit, OHG. geiz, G. geiss, Icel. geit, Sw. get, Dan. ged, Goth. gaits, L. haedus a young goat, kid.]
Wikidata
Goat
Goat is the second full length album by The Jesus Lizard, released in 1991. It is their most acclaimed album, with many critics calling it one of the best albums of the 1990s. The album was produced by Steve Albini. Its cover art, by bassist David Wm. Sims, at first glance resembles a flame, but is actually a topless woman with a close-up image of nails projected onto her body. The rear of the album, and several panels of the enclosed CD booklet include similar pictures of the same naked woman, with different images projected onto her body. It was ranked as the #38th best album of the 1990's by the online magazine Pitchfork Media.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Goat
gōt, n. the well-known quadruped, allied to the sheep.—ns. Goat′chāfer, the dor or dung-beetle; Goatēē′, a beard left on the chin, while the rest of the face is shaven; Goat′-herd, one who tends goats.—adj. Goat′ish, resembling a goat, esp. in smell: lustful: wanton.—ns. Goat′ishness; Goat′-moth, a large moth common throughout Europe and Asia, having a thick heavy body, and measuring three inches or more across the wings; Goat's′-beard, Goat's′-rue, Goat's′-thorn, names of plants; Goat′skin, the skin of the goat, leather made from it; Goat′sucker, a kind of swallow erroneously thought to suck goats. [A.S. gát; Ger. geiss, Dut. geit.]
The New Hacker's Dictionary
GoAT
[Usenet] Abbreviation: “Go Away, Troll”. See troll.
The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz
GOAT
The honored founder and oldest inhabitant of Harlem, N.Y. Elsewhere, not in good odor.
Editors Contribution
goat
A type of animal.
The farmer loved his goats so much he only choose to breed them for their milk, they were like family to him and he treated them with such respect.
Submitted by MaryC on March 18, 2016
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British National Corpus
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'goat' in Nouns Frequency: #2716
Anagrams for goat »
toga
toag
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of goat in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of goat in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of goat in a Sentence
We then saw an income opportunity in growing osunguroi (aloe), which we traded for goats from our men. We planted aloes on 2 acres to start, and 12 roots of the plant (could be) exchanged for a goat.
I'd be more inclined to translate it as goat for the simple reason if you look at the way the character yang is written, even in its ancient form, you can see that there is a pair of horns so it more closely resembles a goat than a sheep.
The difference between a mountain goat and a swan is that swan mucks around the fountains.
If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro:
Yes, I'm mad as a goat, it's true, i'm mad with love for Venezuela, for the Bolivarian Revolution, for Chavez and his example.
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- عنزةArabic
- kozaCzech
- gedDanish
- ZiegeGerman
- κατσίκαGreek
- kaproEsperanto
- cabraSpanish
- بزPersian
- vuohiFinnish
- chèvreFrench
- gabharIrish
- बकराHindi
- kecskeHungarian
- այծArmenian
- kambingIndonesian
- capraItalian
- עזHebrew
- ヤギJapanese
- ಮೇಕೆKannada
- 염소Korean
- hircusLatin
- geitDutch
- geitNorwegian
- kozaPolish
- cabraPortuguese
- caprăRomanian
- козелRussian
- getSwedish
- வெள்ளாடுTamil
- మేకTelugu
- แพะThai
- keçiTurkish
- козелUkrainian
- بکریUrdu
- con dêVietnamese
- ציגYiddish
- 山羊Chinese
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