goat

== English == === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɡəʊt/ (Standard Southern British) IPA(key): /ɡəwt/ (General American) IPA(key): /ɡoʊt/, [ɡoʊʔt̚] (Canada) IPA(key): /ɡoʊt/, [ɡoʊʔt̚], [ɡoːt] (Scotland, Northumbria) IPA(key): /ɡoːt/ (General Australian) IPA(key): /ɡəʉt/, [ɡəʉt], [ɡɐʉt] (New Zealand) IPA(key): /ɡɐʉt/ Rhymes: -əʊt === Etymology 1 === 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". ==== Noun ==== goat (countable and uncountable, plural goats) Any hoofed mammal of the genus Capra. (uncountable) The meat of these animals. (slang) A lecherous man. (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. (slang) A Pontiac GTO car. (speech recognition) A person who is not easily understood by a speech recognition system; contrasted with sheep. A fool, loser, or object of ridicule. (roller derby) A blocker who is isolated behind the opposing team's blockers, so as to slow down the pack. ===== 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) (transitive) To allow goats to feed on. (transitive) To scapegoat. (transitive, roller derby) To isolate (an opposing blocker) behind one's own blockers, so as to slow down the pack. === Etymology 2 === ==== Noun ==== goat (plural goats) (acronym) Alternative letter-case form of GOAT (“greatest of all time”). === Etymology 3 === ==== Noun ==== goat (plural goats) (possibly obsolete) Alternative form of gote (“sluice, waterway”). === Anagrams === Gøta, TOGA, Toga, atgo, toga == Namo == === Noun === goat bone === References === transnewguinea.org, citing McElhanon, KA & Voorhoeve, CL. 1970. The Trans-New Guinea Phylum: Explorations in deep-level genetic relationships. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. == Scots == === Alternative forms === got, gote === Verb === goat simple past of get past participle of get == Swedish == === Verb === goat supine of goa == West Frisian == === Noun === goat c (plural goaten, diminutive goatsje) alternative form of goate