英语词汇“goat”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

goat

/ɡəʊt

noun

1A hardy domesticated ruminant mammal that has backward-curving horns and (in the male) a beard. It is kept for its milk and meat, and noted for its lively behaviour.

Capra hircus, family Bovidae, descended from the wild bezoar.

Besides this, Spanish cattle, pigs, sheep, and goats introduced European meats and fats, milk, butter, and cheese to the Mexican diet....

Finds of animal bones reveal that the ox and the cow were domesticated as were sheep and goats (kept for meat and wool).
They eat the meat of goats, sheep, water buffalo, and cows.

Synonyms

billy goat, billy, nanny goat, nanny, kid

1.1A wild mammal related to the goat, such as the ibex. See also mountain goat.Wild goats are tolerant of considerable extremes of temperature and would most likely have been a source of food for most of the post-glacial period....

The fauna is represented by species such as deer, wild goats, bears, wolves, foxes and martens.
After that all the sheep, wild goats and deer on the Cooley Peninsula would have to be destroyed.

1.2 (the Goat) The zodiacal sign Capricorn or the constellation Capricornus.

2A lecherous man.When you say that some of the girls are prostitutes and that he used to be a responsible, respected person, it is entirely possible that the old goat is having brain changes.

Synonyms

lecher, lecherous man, lascivious man, libertine, womanizer, seducer, adulterer, pervert, debauchee, rake, roué, profligate, wanton, loose-liver, sensualist, sybarite, voluptuary, Don Juan, Casanova, Lothario, Romeo

informal lech, dirty old man, DOM, wolf, ladykiller

dated rip

formal fornicator

3British informal A stupid person; a fool: just for once, stop acting the goat...

Unfortunately a young schoolgirl, acting the goat, injured herself causing a slight cut on her knee.
Acting the goat takes on a new meaning when it involves a challenging nine-and-a-half-hour scramble over the rough terrain around Glenbeigh.
Those involved in one of the county's most popular festivals have decided acting the goat is one way to help a good cause.

4US A scapegoat.O'Neill is believable because his own story portrays him as goat, not hero....

The truth is, he saw a last, desperate chance to transform himself from goat to martyr and he took it.

Phrases

get someone's goat

run like a hairy goat

Derivatives

goatish

/ˈɡəʊtɪʃ

/ adjective ...

The other meaning of fiesta is ‘feast day’, and refers, of course, to the day the goat is finally sacrificed - although goats are usually sacrificed as representatives of human piety and contrition, rather than for their own goatish sins.
It's his first day in the job and he's already banned the entire population of Australia and ‘people with goatish beards’.
One of the beasts, true to goatish cliches, started gnawing on a plastic strap on her pram.

goaty

/ˈɡəʊti