goat

See also: Goat, GOAT, G. O. A. T., G.O.A.T., and go at

English

Domestic goat (Capra aegagrus hircus)

Etymology

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

(lecherous man): From the slang expression "horny as a goat".

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɡəʊt/, /ɡɔʊt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɡoʊt/, [ɡoʊʔ(t̚)], [ɡoʊ(ʔ)t̚]

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• Rhymes: -əʊt

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• (Scotland, Canada, North-East England) IPA^(key): /ɡoːt/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ɡɐ̟ʉt/

Noun

goat (plural goats)

1. A mammal, Capra aegagrus hircus, and similar species of the genus Capra.
2. (slang) A lecherous man.
3. (informal) A scapegoat.
   • 2008, "Tigers already miss Jones", in Royal Oak Daily Tribune (Michigan), Aug 6, 2008

     Fernando Rodney, the goat in Sunday's 10th inning loss to Tampa Bay, threw three nearly perfect innings in relief on Tuesday after being demoted from the closer role.

   • 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. (slang) A person who graduates from West Point with a 2.0 GPA.
7. A fool, loser, or object of ridicule.
   • 2008, Ned B. Ricks, Trusting Appearances: Things Are Not Always as They Seem, page 259:

     Samaurez said over his shoulder, “In fact, I missed being the class goat by only three places.” Gwen patted his arm, “But, look H-Two, George Pickett was the goat and see how famous he became.”

   • 2013, Larry Pointer, In Search of Butch Cassidy:

     As Butch was the goat in that deal and inocent of the trap he was placed in.

   • 2013, Frank Norris, The Octopus:

     If Osterman wants to play the goat, why should you help him out?”

Synonyms

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

Holonyms

• (group of goats): tribe, herd

Derived terms

• act the goat
• antigoat
• bezoar goat
• billy goat
• get someone's goat
• gnu goat
• goat antelope
• goat boat
• goatburger
• goat cheese
• goatee
• goaten
• goat fig
• goatfish
• goatflesh
• goatfuck
• goatfucker
• goatgrass
• goathair
• goatherd
• goatherder
• goathood
• goathouse
• goatish
• goatless
• goatlike
• goatling
• goatly
• goatmeat
• goatmilk
• goat moth
• goatpox
• goatproof
• goat rodeo
• goat rope
• goat's-beard
• goat's cheese
• goatse
• goat shit
• goatskin
• goat's milk cheese
• goat's rue
• goatsucker
• goatweed
• goat willow
• goaty
• he-goat
• horny goat weed
• Jemlah goat
• Judas goat
• mountain goat
• nanny goat
• Saanen goat
• scapegoat
• shawl goat
• she-goat
• son of a motherless goat
• spider goat

 

Descendants

• → Abenaki: kots (from "goats")
• → Rotokas: goti

Translations

animal

• Abkhaz: аџьма (adžma) (female), аџьмаб (adžmab) (male)
• Acehnese: kamèng
• Adyghe: пчэны (pčɛnə)
• Afrikaans: bok (af)
• Akkadian: 𒍚 (enzu)
• Albanian: dhi (sq) f
• Alviri-Vidari: (Vidari) بیز (biz)
• Amharic: ፍየል (fəyäl)
• Arabic: مَاعِز m (māʕiz), عَنْزَة f (ʕanza)

  Egyptian Arabic: معز m (maʕz) (collective), معزة f (maʕza) (singulative)

  Iraqi Arabic: سخل f (saχel)

  Lebanese Arabic: عنزة f (ʿanze)

  Moroccan Arabic: عتروس f (ʿatrous)

• Aragonese: craba (an) f, crapa (an) f
• Armenian: այծ (hy) (ayc), (male) նոխազ (hy) (noxaz), քոշ (hy) (kʻoš), քաղ (hy) (kʻaġ)

  Old Armenian: այծ (ayc), (male) նոխազ (noxaz), քօշ (kʻōš), քաղ (kʻał)

• Aromanian: caprã f
• Assamese: ছাগলী (sagoli), ছাগল m (sagol)
• Asturian: cabra f
• Atayal: mit qnahi
• Avar: цӏцӏе (ccʼe) (female), дегӏен (deʻen) (male)
• Azerbaijani: keçi (az)
• Bakhtiari: بز (boz)
• Bashkir: кәзә (kəzə)
• Basque: ahuntz f, aker m
• Bats: გაზაჼ (gazã)
• Belarusian: каза́ f (kazá) (female), казёл m (kazjól) (male)
• Beli: binya (tonality, high, low) kpitɔ binya m (tonality, high, high, high, low)
• Bengali: ছাগল (bn) (chagol)
• Bikol Central: kanding
• Breton: gavr (br) f
• Buginese: bembe
• Bulgarian: коза̀ (bg) f (kozà) (female), козѐл (bg) m (kozèl) (male)
• Burmese: ဆိတ် (my) (hcit)
• Buryat: ямаан (jamaan)
• Catalan: cabra (ca) f
• Cebuano: kanding
• Central Dusun: kambing
• Central Melanau: kabieng
• Chechen: газа (gaza) (female), бож (bož) (male)
• Cherokee: ᎤᎦᏐᏣᏁᏛ (ugasotsanedv)
• Cheyenne: mé'hahtsékósa
• Chichewa: mbuzi
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 山羊 (saan¹ joeng⁴)

  Hakka: 山羊 (sân-yòng)

  Mandarin: 羊 (zh) (yáng), 山羊 (zh) (shānyáng)

  Min Nan: 山羊 (zh-min-nan) (soaⁿ-iûⁿ)

• Chuvash: качака (kač̬ak̬a)
• Cimbrian: please add this translation if you can
• Cornish: gaver f
• Corsican: capra (co) f
• Crimean Tatar: eçki
• Czech: koza (cs) f (female), kozel (cs) m (male)
• Danish: ged (da) c
• Dutch: geit (nl) f, bok (nl) m
• Dzongkha: please add this translation if you can
• Elfdalian: djiet c
• Emilian: chèvra f
• Erzya: сея (śeja)
• Esperanto: kapro
• Estonian: kits
• Ewe: gbɔ̃ n
• Faroese: geit f
• Finnish: vuohi (fi)
• Franco-Provençal: cabra f, chèvra f
• French: chèvre (fr) f, bouc (fr) m, bique (fr) f
• Friulian: cjavre f, čhavre f
• Galician: cabra (gl) f, godalla f, xena f, cabuxa f
• Georgian: თხა (txa), (one year old) ქოშიკი (košiḳi)
• German: Ziege (de) f, Geiß (de) f, Bock (de) m

  Alemannic German: Geiss f

  Bavarian: Goaß f

  Middle High German: geiz f, zige f

  Old High German: geiz f, ziga f

• Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌹𐍄𐍃 (gaits)
• Greek: κατσίκα (el) f (katsíka), γίδα (el) f (gída), γίδι (el) n (gídi)

  Ancient: τράγος m (trágos), αἴξ m or f (aíx)

• Guaraní: kavara
• Guerrero Amuzgo: kínch'ió
• Gujarati: બકરી (gu) f (bakrī)
• Haitian Creole: kabrit
• Hausa: bunsuru
• Hebrew: עֵז (he) f (ez)
• Hindi: बकरी (hi) f (bakrī)
• Hungarian: kecske (hu)
• Icelandic: geit (is) f
• Ido: kapro (io)
• Indonesian: kambing (id)
• Interlingua: capra
• Irish: gabhar (ga) m

  Old Irish: gabor m

• Istriot: càvara f
• Italian: capra (it) f
• Ivatan: kaddin
• Japanese: ヤギ (ja) (yagi), 山羊 (ja) (やぎ, yagi)
• Javanese: wedus
• Jingpho: bainam
• Kabardian: бжэн (bžɛn)
• Kannada: ಮೇಕೆ (kn) (mēke)
• Kapampangan: kambing
• Kashubian: kòza f
• Kazakh: ешкі (kk) (eşkı), теке (teke)
• Khmer: ពពែ (km) (pɔpɛɛ), សត្វពពែ (sat pɔpɛɛ)
• Kikuyu: mbũri, harika (female and not having born a kid)
• Komi-Permyak: кӧза (köza)
• Kongo: nkombo
• Korean: 염소 (ko) (yeomso), 산양 (sanyang) (山羊)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji:

  Sorani:

• Kyrgyz: ечки (yecki)
• Ladin: cioura, cëura f (Gherdëina)
• Lak: цӏуку (cʼuku), кьяца (qʼaˤca)
• Lao: ແບ້ (bǣ)
• Latgalian: koza f, uozs m
• Latin: caper (la) m, capra f, hircus m
• Latvian: kaza (lv) f, āzis (lv) m
• Laz: (one year old) ქოშატი (koşaťi)
• Ledo Kaili: ^{(please verify)} tovau
• Limburgish: geit (li) m or f
• Lingala: ntaba class 9/10
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Lithuanian: ožka (lt) f, ožys (lt) m
• Low German: Zeeg f, Zääg f, Seeg f, Sääg f

  Dutch Low Saxon: sik f

• Luganda: embuzi
• Luxembourgish: Geess f
• Lü: ᦶᦢᧉ (ḃae²)
• Macedonian: коза f (koza) (female), јарец m (jarec) (male)
• Malagasy: osy (mg)
• Malay: kambing (ms)
• Malayalam: ആട് (ml) (āṭŭ)
• Maltese: mogħża f
• Manx: goayr (gv) f
• Maori: nanenane, koati
• Marathi: बकरी f (bakrī), शेळी (śeḷī)
• Mazanderani: بز (bez)
• Mi'kmaq: te'plj anim, te'pulj anim
• Middle English: gote
• Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
• Moksha: сява (śava)
• Mongolian: ямаа (mn) (jamaa)
• Mwani: mbuzi
• Nauruan: ekaun
• Navajo: tłʼízí
• Neapolitan: crapa f
• Newar: दुगु (dugu)
• Norman: biche f (Jersey), bich f (Sark)
• Northern Sami: gáica
• Northern Sotho: pudi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: geit (no) f or m

  Nynorsk: geit f

• Occitan: cabra (oc) f, chabra (oc) f, craba (oc) f
• Okinawan: ひーじゃー (hiijaa)
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: коза f (koza), козьлъ m (kozĭlŭ)

  Glagolitic: ⰽⱁⰸⰰ f (koza)

• Old English: gāt f
• Old Norse: geit f
• Oriya: ଛେଳି (or) (cheḷi)
• Ossetian: цӕу (cæw), сӕгъ (sæǧ)
• Ottoman Turkish: بز (büz)
• Pashto: وزه f (wozzah)
• Persian: بز (fa) (boz)
• Piedmontese: crava f
• Plautdietsch: Bock m
• Polabian: ťözâ f
• Polish: koza (pl) f (female), kozioł (pl) m (male)
• Portuguese: bode (pt) m, cabra (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਬੱਕਰੀ f (bakkarī)
• Quechua: kawra
• Romani: buzno m, buzni f
• Romanian: capră (ro) f, țap (ro) m
• Romansch: chaura f (Rumantsch Grischun), caura f (Sursilvan), tgora f (Sutsilvan, Surmiran), chevra f (Puter), chavra f (Vallader)
• Russian: коза́ (ru) f (kozá) (female), козёл (ru) m (kozjól) (male)
• Rwanda-Rundi: ihene class 9/10 (Rwanda), impene (Rundi)
• Saanich: NÁNI
• Samoan: o'ti
• Samogitian: uožka f
• Sanskrit: अजा (sa) f (ajā), अज (sa) m (aja), छाग (sa) m (chāga)
• Santali: ᱢᱮᱨᱳᱢ (merom)
• Sardinian: craba, becca
• Saterland Frisian: Sääge f
• Scots: gait
• Scottish Gaelic: gobhar f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ко̀за (female), ја̏рац m (male)

  Roman: kòza (sh) (female), jȁrac (sh) m (male)

• Shan: ပႄႉ (pâ̰ae)
• Shona: mbudzi
• Sicilian: beccu (scn) m, crapa (scn) f
• Sikkimese: please add this translation if you can
• Silesian: koza f
• Sinhalese: ළුළුවා (ḷuḷuwā)
• Slovak: koza (sk) f (female), kozel m (male), cap (sk) m (male)
• Slovene: koza (sl) f (female), kozel (sl) m (male)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: kóza f (female), kózoł m (male)

  Upper Sorbian: koza f (female), kоzоł m (male)

• Sotho: podi (st)
• Southern Bai: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: cabra (es) f, chivo (es) m
• Sumerian: 𒍚 (ÙZ)
• Sundanese: êmbé
• Svan: დაჴჷლ (daqəl)
• Swahili: mbuzi (sw) class 9/10
• Swedish: get (sv) c
• Sylheti: ꠍꠣꠉꠟ (ságol)
• Tagalog: kambing (tl)
• Tajik: буз (tg) (buz)
• Talysh: بز (bəz) (Asalem dialect)
• Tamil: வெள்ளாடு (ta) (veḷḷāṭu), ஆடு (ta) (āṭu)
• Tatar: кәҗә (tt) (käcä)
• Telugu: మేక (te) (mēka)
• Thai: แพะ (th) (pɛ́)
• Tibetan: ར (ra)
• Tswana: podi class 9/10
• Tumbuka: mbuzi
• Turkish: keçi (tr)
• Turkmen: geçi
• Tuvan: өшкү (öşkü)
• Udmurt: кеч (keć)
• Ukrainian: коза́ (uk) f (kozá) (female), козе́л (uk) m (kozél) (male), цап (uk) m (cap) (male)
• Urdu: بکری f (bakrī)
• Uyghur: ئۆچكە (öchke)
• Uzbek: echki (uz)
• Venetian: cavra f, càvara (vec) f, càora (vec) f
• Vietnamese: dê (vi), con dê
• Vilamovian: cejg f
• Volapük: kapar (vo)
• Walloon: gade (wa) f, tchive (wa) f
• Waray-Waray: kanding
• Welsh: gafr (cy) f
• West Frisian: geit f
• Western Cham: ڤبي
• Wolof: bëy wi (wo)
• Xhosa: ibhokhwe class 9/10
• Yiddish: ציג f (tsig), באָק m (bok), צאַפּ m (tsap)
• Yoruba: ewúrẹ́
• Zazaki: beze, bıze, bhıze, bizi
• Zhuang: yiengz, mbej
• Zulu: imbuzi (zu) class 9/10
• ǃXóõ: páli

lecherous man

• Bulgarian: пръч (bg) m (prǎč)
• Danish: buk
• Finnish: pukki (fi)
• Greek: τράγος (el) m (trágos)
• Indonesian: bandot (id)
• Italian: capra (it) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ја̏рац m

  Roman: jȁrac (sh) m

• Swedish: kåtbock (sv), bock (sv)
• Zazaki: khel

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.
   • 1918, Agricultural Experiment Station, Director's Biennial Report - Page 51

     Rape and clover has yielded 283 sheep days of pasture, practically dry weather […] For the coming year it is planned to goat this area continuously

2. (transitive) To scapegoat.
   • 2001, "A worthy Rusch to judgment", in USA Today, July 15, 2001

     John Rocker, meanwhile, was spared from getting goated because he didn't blow a save

Anagrams

• Toga, atgo, toga

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Noun

goat c (plural goaten, diminutive goatsje)

1. Alternative form of goate