goat Definition
goat (gōt)
noun
- pl. goats or goat
- any of a genus (Capra) of wild or domesticated bovid ruminants with hollow horns
- ☆ Rocky Mountain goat
- a lecherous man
- ☆ Informal a person forced to take the blame or punishment for others; scapegoat
Etymology: ME gote < OE gat, akin to Du geit, Ger geiss < IE base *ghaido-, he-goat > L haedus, kid goat
goat Idioms
get someone's goat
☆Informal to annoy, anger, or irritate someone
the Goat
Capricornus, the constellation, or Capricorn, the tenth sign of the zodiac
goat Synonyms
goat
n.
Types of goats include: ibex, markhor, bezoar, dzeren, Rocky Mountain, Angora, Cashmere, dwarf, Guinean, Egyptian, Granada, Nubian, Maltese, Nepal, Syrian, Alpine, Toggenburg, Saanen, African pygmy;
get one's goat*
goat Usage Examples
Possessives
- cheese: For my starter I had the red onion tart with goat's cheese.
- milk: Goats ' milk also contains similar amounts of lactose to cows ' milk.
Converse of object
- curry: This consisted of marinated raw fish for starters and curried goat for main course.
- slaughter: In today's world, women are up there with men, slaughtering the goat and cutting it in to pieces.
- sacrifice: They could be sacrificing goats for all I know.
Adjective modifier
- feral: An encounter with a small herd of mostly black feral goats on the final descent rounded off a real day to remember.
- grilled: Menu S: grilled goat 's cheese salad; king prawns in garlic butter.
- wild: She is said to take wild goats to the beaches of Skye where they feed on seaweed.
Modifies a noun
- cheese: Want to know which wine to serve with lemon tart or goats cheese?
- pox: Use of the restriction enzyme Eco RI was used to distinguish between sheep and goat pox isolates.
- herder: Chico lived in Morocco until he was 13 where he was a goat herder, and moved to Crawley when he was 14.
- willow: The shrub layer consists of rowan and holly, with hazel locally frequent and occasional goat willow.
- milk: Goats milk will give a runnier yogurt than cows milk.
- herd: Among goat herds 89 % success was reported On poultry farms 92 % success was achieved Among cattle herds success was 100 % .
Noun used with modifier
- pygmy: Visitors can also see the rare breeds of chickens, cows, pigs and pygmy goats stocked.
- angora: We stroked angora goats, looked at their wool, and talked about all the different things you can make from wool.
- billy: Three billy goats, three magic beans, three beautiful sisters, three wicked witches or even three bothered bears.
- cashmere: Research is conducted on fiber production from cashmere goats and fine wool sheep and on the biology of growth and shedding of fibers.
- dairy: Miniature dairy goats cause excitement in the caprine world!
- nanny: Phase 1 involves force-feeding horse tranquilizers to a nanny goat.
Browse dictionary entries near goat
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