goatee

English

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Etymology

From goat +‎ -ee ‎(diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɡəʊˈtiː/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌɡoʊˈtiː/
• Rhymes: -iː

Noun

goatee ‎(plural goatees)

1. A beard trimmed to grow only at the center of the chin.
   • 1907, Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent, ch. 3,

     The terrorist, as he called himself, was old and bald, with a narrow, snow-white wisp of a goatee hanging limply from his chin.

Derived terms

• goateed

Translations

beard at the center of the chin

• Arabic: عُثْنُون m ‎(ʿuṯnūn)
• Bulgarian: козя брадичка f ‎(kozja bradička)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 山羊鬍子, 山羊胡子 ‎(shānyáng húzi)

• Czech: bradka f
• Danish: fipskæg (da) n
• Dutch: kinbaardje n, sik (nl) m
• Esperanto: kaprobarbo
• Estonian: kitsehabe
• Finnish: pukinparta
• French: barbiche (fr) f, bouc (fr) m
• Georgian: თხაწვერა ‎(txac̣vera)
• German: Spitzbart m, Kinnbart (de) m, Ziegenbart (de) m
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: kecskeszakáll (hu)
• Icelandic: hökutoppur (is) m
• Ido: mentonobarbo (io)
• Irish: meigeall m, cab féasóige m, caibín féasóige m

• Italian: pizzo (it) m
• Japanese: 山羊髭 ‎(やぎひげ, yagihige)
• Korean: 염소 수염 ‎(yeomso suyeom)
• Latvian: kazbārdiņa f, āža bārdiņa f
• Macedonian: шилесто брадиче n ‎(šilesto bradiče)
• Maori: hurukauae
• Norman: barbiche f (Jersey)
• Norwegian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: kozia bródka (pl) f
• Portuguese: cavanhaque (pt) m, cavaignac m
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: козли́ная боро́дка f ‎(kozlínaja boródka), ко́зья боро́дка f ‎(kózʹja boródka), эспаньо́лка (ru) f ‎(espanʹólka)
• Slovak: briadka f
• Slovene: kózja brádica f
• Spanish: perilla (es) f, piocha (es) f (Mexico), barba de chivo f, chiva (es) f, chivera f
• Swedish: bockskägg n
• Turkish: keçi sakalı
• Yiddish: ציגן־בערדל n ‎(tsign-berdl)

See also

• soul patch