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GOAT abbr. greatest of all time
goat G0169200 (gōt)n.1. A domesticated ruminant mammal (Capra hircus) having backward curving horns and a beard especially in the male, raised for its wool, milk, and meat.2. Any of various wild ruminant mammals of the genus Capra and related genera, including the ibexes and the wild goat (C. aegagrus) of Eurasia.3. A lecherous man.4. A person who is blamed for a failure or misfortune, especially a scapegoat.5. Goata. See Capricorn.b. See Capricornus.
[Middle English got, from Old English gāt.]
goat′ish adj.goat (ɡəʊt) n1. (Animals) any sure-footed agile bovid mammal of the genus Capra, naturally inhabiting rough stony ground in Europe, Asia, and N Africa, typically having a brown-grey colouring and a beard. Domesticated varieties (C. hircus) are reared for milk, meat, and wool. 2. (Animals) short for Rocky Mountain goat3. informal a lecherous man4. a bad or inferior member of any group (esp in the phrase separate the sheep from the goats)5. short for scapegoat6. act the goat act the giddy goat play the goat play the giddy goat to fool around7. get someone's goat slang to cause annoyance to someone[Old English gāt; related to Old Norse geit, Old High German geiz, Latin haedus kid] ˈgoatˌlike adj
Goat (ɡəʊt) n (Astrology) the Goat the constellation Capricorn, the tenth sign of the zodiacgoat (goʊt)
n. 1. any agile, hollow-horned ruminant of the Old World genus Capra, of the family Bovidae, closely related to sheep, usu. native to mountainous regions, and widely distributed in domesticated varieties. 2. any of various related animals, as the Rocky Mountain goat. 3. (cap.) Capricorn (def 1). 4. a scapegoat or victim. 5. a lecherous man. Idioms: get someone's goat, Informal. to anger, annoy, or frustrate a person. [before 900; Middle English got, Old English gāt, c. Old Saxon gēt, Old High German geiz, Old Norse geit, Gothic gaits; akin to Latin haedus kid] goat′like`, adj. goat (gōt) Any of various hoofed ruminant mammals related to the sheep and having hollow, curved horns and a beard. Goats are raised in many parts of the world for wool, milk, and meat.Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  goat - any of numerous agile ruminants related to sheep but having a beard and straight hornscaprine animalhorn - one of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulatesbovid - hollow-horned ruminantsbeard - hairy growth on or near the face of certain mammalsgenus Capra, Capra - goatskid - young goatbilly goat, he-goat, billy - male goatnanny-goat, she-goat, nanny - female goatCapra hircus, domestic goat - any of various breeds of goat raised for milk or meat or woolwild goat - undomesticated goat | | 2. | goat - a victim of ridicule or prankslaughingstock, stooge, buttApril fool - the butt of a prank played on April 1stdupe, victim - a person who is tricked or swindled | | 3. |  Goat - (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in CapricornCapricornindividual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"astrology, star divination - a pseudoscience claiming divination by the positions of the planets and sun and moon | | 4. | Goat - the tenth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about December 22 to January 19Capricorn the Goat, Capricorn |
goat nounRelated words
adjectives caprine, hircine
male billy, buck
female nanny
young kid, yeanling
collective nouns herd, tribegoatnounOne who is made an object of blame:scapegoat, whipping boy.Slang: fall guy, patsy.Translationsgoat (gəut) noun an animal of the sheep family, with horns and a long-haired coat. 山羊 山羊goat
act the goatTo behave comically or playfully, often to amuse others. Joe never acts the goat—he's always serious. If you continue to act the goat, you're going to have to leave the classroom.See also: act, goatplay the goatTo behave comically or playfully, often to amuse others. Joe never plays the goat—he's always serious. If you continue to play the goat, you're going to have to leave the classroom.See also: goat, playseparate the sheep from the goatsTo separate the good from the bad. In this Biblical phrase, sheep represent the good and goats the bad. When you choose the students for your homeroom, don't separate the sheep from the goats and give me all the troublemakers!See also: goat, separate, sheepget (one's) goatTo annoy or anger one. That guy just gets my goat every time he opens his mouth.See also: get, goatseparate the men from the boysTo distinguish or separate the experienced, competent, or strong participants from those who are not. We've had some easy games so far in the season, but this next one is going to separate the men from the boys. This is a business that separates the men from the boys—don't get involved unless you have what it takes.See also: boy, men, separateGOATAn acronym for "greatest of all time," referring to the person considered the best to ever compete, perform, or participate in a particular game or field, typically a certain sport. A lot of older guys still insist it's Jordan, even though LeBron is clearly the GOAT.skin a goatobsolete slang To vomit. Primarily heard in US. The sight of the dead body caused several rookies on the squad to skin the goat right then and there.See also: goat, skinAre you still riding the goat?Are you no longer married? A: "Are you still riding the goat?" B: "I'm still married! Why are you asking? What did you hear?"See also: riding, stillget someone's goatFig. to irritate someone; to annoy and arouse someone to anger. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to get your goat. Jean got Sally's goat and Sally made quite a fuss about it.See also: get, goatseparate the men from the boys and separate the sheep from the goatsFig. to separate the competent from those who are less competent. (Not necessarily just about males.) This is the kind of task that separates the men from the boys. Working in a challenging place like this really separates the sheep from the goats.See also: boy, men, separateget someone's goatAnnoy or anger someone, as in By teasing me about that article I wrote, he's trying to get my goat, but I won't let him . The origin of this expression is disputed. H.L. Mencken held it came from using a goat as a calming influence in a racehorse's stall and removing it just before the race, thereby making the horse nervous. However, there is no firm evidence for this origin. [c. 1900] See also: get, goatseparate the men from the boysDistinguish between mature, experienced individuals and novices, as in The picket line will separate the men from the boys in the union. The idiom is used without respect to gender. [c. 1930] See also: boy, men, separateseparate the sheep from the goatsDistinguish between good and bad individuals, or superior and inferior ones. For example, In a civil war where both sides commit atrocities, you can't separate the sheep from the goats . This term refers to Jesus's prophecy in the New Testament (Matthew 25:32) that the sheep (that is, the compassionate) will sit on God's right hand (and find salvation), and the goats (the hard-hearted) will sit on the left (and be sent to damnation). See also: goat, separate, sheepact the goat BRITISH, INFORMAL, OLD-FASHIONEDIf someone acts the goat, they behave in a silly way. A bunch of football fans were acting the goat and we moved to get away from them. Note: Goats are often associated with unpredictable behaviour. See also: act, goatget someone's goat INFORMALIf someone or something gets your goat, they annoy you. If there's one thing that gets my goat, it's some fashion critic telling us what we can and can't wear. It was a bad performance, but what really got the media's goat was the manager's refusal to take the blame. Note: This expression may be connected with the early 20th century practice in America of putting goats in the same stable as racehorses, since the goats seemed to have a calming effect. If someone stole the goat, the horse would be upset and its performance would be affected. See also: get, goatseparate the sheep from the goats or sort out the sheep from the goats If you separate the sheep from the goats or sort out the sheep from the goats, you examine a group of things or people and decide which are good and which are bad. It is getting harder and harder to sort out the sheep from the goats among the 4,000 or so titles for children that are published every year. Testing exists to separate the sheep from the goats. Note: The Bible says that on the Day of Judgment, Jesus will divide his sheep from the goats. The sheep represent those who are going to heaven, and the goats represent those who are going to hell. (Matthew 25:32) See also: goat, separate, sheepget someone's goat irritate someone. informal 1998 Andrea Ashworth Once in a House on Fire It got his goat when he caught me…with my nose stuck in a book turned the wrong way up. See also: get, goatplay (or act) the (giddy) goat fool around; act irresponsibly. informalSee also: goat, playseparate (or sort out) the men from the boys show or prove which people in a group are truly competent, brave, or mature. 1968 House & Garden The Dry Martini…is a drink that will quickly separate the men from the boys and the girls from their principles. See also: boy, men, separateseparate the sheep from the goats divide people or things into superior and inferior groups. This expression alludes to the parable of the Last Judgement in Matthew 25:32–3: ‘And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: and he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left’.See also: goat, separate, sheepact/play the ˈgoat (informal) deliberately behave in a silly or foolish way: Stop acting the goat or I’ll send you out. I’m warning you.See also: act, goat, playget somebody’s ˈgoat (informal) annoy somebody very much: That woman really gets my goat. She does nothing but complain. ♢ It really gets my goat when people smoke in non-smoking areas.See also: get, goatsort out/separate the ˌsheep from the ˈgoats separate the good people from the bad people: The exams at the end of the first year usually separate the sheep from the goats.This comes from the belief that on Judgement Day (= the day the world ends) God will judge everybody who ever lived and decide who was good (= the sheep) and who was bad (= the goats).See also: goat, out, separate, sheep, sortget someone’s goat tv. to irritate someone. Don’t let Mary get your goat. She’s just irritable today. See also: get, goatgoat n. a fast and powerful car; a Pontiac GTO. His goat conked out on him. skin a goat tv. to empty one’s stomach; to vomit. (From the bleating sound of the wretching.) Was my cooking so bad that everybody had to skin a goat? See also: goat, skinget someone's goat, toTo annoy someone, to make a person lose his or her temper. This term is definitely American in origin, but its precise provenance has been lost. H. L. Mencken was told that it came from the practice of putting a goat inside a skittish racehorse’s stall in order to calm it down. Removing the goat shortly before the race would upset the horse and reduce its chances of winning, a ruse supposedly planned by a gambler who had bet on the horse’s losing. This explanation seems more far-fetched than a possible connection of the term with the verb “to goad.” In any event, it came into use about 1900. See also: getseparate the sheep from the goats, toTo sort the good from the bad, the superior from the inferior. This term comes from the Bible, in which Jesus seems to make an analogy between sheep and goats and those who would sit at God’s right hand and left hand (Matthew 25:32). In the fourteenth century John Wycliffe was more explicit, stating, “Schepe that schal be savid schal be on hys rigt honde [sheep that shall be saved shall be on his right hand].” The term has been so used ever since.See also: separate, sheepget one's goatTo make angry. Many racehorses develop a strong attachment to their stable mascots—dogs, cats, chickens, and, especially, goats. The mascots provide a calming effect— they're the horse's security blankets. One will live in or close to “its” horse's stall and will accompany the horse to racetracks across the country. Horses become very upset when their mascots aren't around, so crafty stablehands would steal away a rival horse's pal. Thus deprived, the horse would become angry when someone got its goat.See also: get, goatgoat
goat, ruminant mammal with hollow horns and coarse hair belonging to the genus Capra of the cattle family and closely related to the sheepsheep,
common name for many species of wild and domesticated ruminant mammals of the genus Ovis of the Bovidae, or cattle, family. The male is called a ram (if castrated it is a wether), the female is called a ewe, and their offspring is a lamb.
..... Click the link for more information. . True wild goats, all of Old World origin, include the Persian bezoar goat, or pasan, possibly the ancestor of the domestic varieties; the several species of ibexibex
, wild goat, genus Capra, found in rugged country on mountain ranges from central Asia to the Himalayas, S Europe, and NE Africa. Ibexes are surefooted and agile; they usually travel in small herds of about a dozen animals, feeding on a wide variety of vegetation.
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, wild goat, Capra falconeri, found in the rugged mountains of central Asia, from S Russia to the W Himalayas. Largest of the goats, the male may stand over 40 in. (100 cm) at the shoulder and weigh over 200 lb (90 kg).
..... Click the link for more information. of Asia, with spirally twisted horns. The Rocky Mountain goat and the chamoischamois
, hollow-horned, hoofed mammal, Rupicapra rupicapra, found in the mountains of Europe and the E Mediterranean. It is about the size of a large goat and is light brown with a black tail, a black back stripe, and black markings on its face.
..... Click the link for more information. are not true goats but are closely related. Goats are hardy cliff dwellers, preferring an arid climate. They live in herds and feed on grass, weeds, shrubs, and other vegetation. Goats were domesticated early; they are pictured in ancient Egyptian art and mentioned in the Bible. Domestic goats, varieties of Capra hircus, are found throughout the world, most abundantly in Asia. They are raised for milk, flesh, hair and wool, skins, and, in certain areas, to control scrub growth. Goat's milk is easily digested and has greater protein and fat content than that of cows, and goats have been used historically to wet-nurse human infants. The chief dairy breeds in the United States are the Toggenburg and Saanen (both of Swiss origin), as well as the Nubian, French Alpine, and Rock Alpine goats. Many dairy goats are hornless. The Cashmere goat is raised in central Asia, N India, and Iran for the wool of its downy undercoat. Angora goats, whose clipped wool is known as mohair, are more numerous than other breeds in the United States; they are raised chiefly in Texas. The Spanish, or common, goat, familiar in the Southwest, was brought to Mexico by early Spanish settlers. Goats are classified in the phylum ChordataChordata
, phylum of animals having a notochord, or dorsal stiffening rod, as the chief internal skeletal support at some stage of their development. Most chordates are vertebrates (animals with backbones), but the phylum also includes some small marine invertebrate animals.
..... Click the link for more information. , subphylum Vertebrata, class Mammalia, order Artiodactyla, family Bovidae. Bibliography See D. Mackenzie, Goat Husbandry (3d ed. 1970). Goat (religion, spiritualism, and occult)The Goat is one of the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac. It refers to one of the 12 earthly branches that are used in Chinese astrology, together with the 10 heavenly stems. Such a branch designates one day every 12 days: the days are named according to a sexagesimal (60) cycle, made of 10 series of 12 branches. Kind and gentle, the Goat is emotional and even shy. He tries to be liked by everyone. Touchy, passive and lazy, not really ambitious, very imaginative, and artistic, he hates to be disturbed in his dreams. Eccentric, he likes neither routine nor discipline, and never arrives on time. He loves to stay at home. Generous and attracted by mysticism, he hates violence. The Goat is also a popular name for the sign Capricorn. The original Mesopotamian creature associated with this sign was half goat and half fish. —Michele Delemme What does it mean when you dream about a goat?The sacrificial “scapegoat,” the tenacious “old goat,” and “getting someone’s goat” all indicate the sturdiness of this animal. This symbol is also associated with sexual vitality (“lecherous old goat”), especially when depicted as a satyr, such as the god Pan in pagan mythology. goat[gōt] (vertebrate zoology) The common name for a number of artiodactyl mammals in the genus Capra ; closely related to sheep but differing in having a lighter build and hollow, swept-back, sometimes spiral or twisted horns. goatlust incarnate. [Art: Hall, 139]See: Lust
goatzodiacally belongs to December; hence, winter. [Astrology: Hall, 139]See: Wintergoat1. any sure-footed agile bovid mammal of the genus Capra, naturally inhabiting rough stony ground in Europe, Asia, and N Africa, typically having a brown-grey colouring and a beard. Domesticated varieties (C. hircus) are reared for milk, meat, and wool 2. short for Rocky Mountain goatGoat (dreams)When interpreting dreams with goats in them, consider the characteristics that we associate with these animals. We consider them to be sturdy and tenacious. Historically, lambs are sacrificial and when we place blame on an individual we may call him a “scapegoat.” Additionally, in pagan mythology goats are considered to be symbols of sexual vitality. Look at the details of your dream and see if you can connect any of these characteristics to yourself or someone else in your daily life.goat
goat (gōt)n.1. A domesticated ruminant mammal (Capra hircus) having backward curving horns and a beard especially in the male, raised for its wool, milk, and meat.2. Any of various wild ruminant mammals of the genus Capra and related genera, including the ibexes and the wild goat (C. aegagrus) of Eurasia.
goat′ish adj.GOAT
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Related to goat: goutSynonyms for goatnoun one who is made an object of blameSynonyms- scapegoat
- whipping boy
- fall guy
- patsy
Synonyms for goatnoun any of numerous agile ruminants related to sheep but having a beard and straight hornsSynonymsRelated Words- horn
- bovid
- beard
- genus Capra
- Capra
- kid
- billy goat
- he-goat
- billy
- nanny-goat
- she-goat
- nanny
- Capra hircus
- domestic goat
- wild goat
noun a victim of ridicule or pranksSynonymsRelated Wordsnoun (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in CapricornSynonymsRelated Words- individual
- mortal
- person
- somebody
- someone
- soul
- astrology
- star divination
noun the tenth sign of the zodiacSynonyms- Capricorn the Goat
- Capricorn
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