goat, caprine animal
(noun) any of numerous agile ruminants related to sheep but having a beard and straight horns
Capricorn, Capricorn the Goat, Goat
(noun) the tenth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about December 22 to January 19
Capricorn, Goat
(noun) (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Capricorn
butt, goat, laughingstock, stooge
(noun) a victim of ridicule or pranks
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Goat
The eighth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
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goat (plural goats)
A mammal, Capra aegagrus hircus, and similar species of the genus Capra.
(slang) A lecherous man.
(informal) A scapegoat.
(slang) A Pontiac GTO car.
(speech recognition) A person who is not easily understood by a speech recognition system; contrasted with sheep.
(slang) A person who graduates from West Point with a 2.0 GPA.
A fool, loser, or object of ridicule.
• (lecherous man): See also libertine
• (scapegoat): See also scapegoat
• (group of goats): tribe, herd
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.
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Abbreviation.
GOAT (plural GOATs)
(UK, politics, informal) A member of the "government of all the talents" proposed by British prime minister Gordon Brown.
(US, informal) Acronym of greatest of all time.
• Gøta, Toga, atgo, toga
Source: Wiktionary
Goat, n. Etym: [OE goot, got, gat, AS. gat; akin to D. geit, OHG. geiz, G. geiss, Icel. geit, Sw. get, Dan. ged, Goth. gaits, L. haedus a young goat, kid.] (Zoöl.)
Definition: 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.
Note: The Cashmere and Angora varieties of the goat have long, silky hair, used in the manufacture of textile fabrics. The wild or bezoar goat (Capra ægagrus), of Asia Minor, noted for the bezoar stones found in its stomach, is supposed to be one of the ancestral species ofthe domestic goat. The Rocky Montain goat (Haplocercus montanus) is more nearly related to the antelopes. See Mazame. Goat antelope (Zoöl), one of several species of antelopes, which in some respects resemble a goat, having recurved horns, a stout body, large hoofs, and a short, flat tail, as the goral, thar, mazame, and chikara.
– Goat fig (Bot.), the wild fig.
– Goat house. (a) A place for keeping goats. (b) A brothel. [Obs.]
– Goat moth (Zoöl.), any moth of the genus Cossus, esp. the large European species (C. ligniperda), the larva of which burrows in oak and willow trees, and requires three years to mature. It exhales an odor like that of the he-goat.
– Goat weed (Bot.), a scrophulariaceous plant, of the genus Capraria (C. biflora).
– Goat's bane (Bot.), a poisonous plant (Aconitum Lucoctonum), bearing pale yellow flowers, introduced from Switzerland into England; wolfsbane.
– Goat's beard (Bot.), a plant of the genus Tragopogon; -- so named from the long silky beard of the seeds. One species is the salsify or oyster plant.
– Goat's foot (Bot.), a kind of wood sorrel (Oxalis caprina) growing at the Cape of Good Hope.
– Goat's rue (Bot.), a leguminous plant (Galega officinalis of Europe, or Tephrosia Virginiana in the United States).
– Goat's thorn (Bot.), a thorny leguminous plant (Astragalus Tragacanthus), found in the Levant.
– Goat's wheat (Bot.), the genus Tragopyrum (now referred to Atraphaxis).
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
19 January 2025
(noun) powerful and effective language; “his eloquence attracted a large congregation”; “fluency in spoken and written English is essential”; “his oily smoothness concealed his guilt from the police”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
