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goat¹

  • /ɡəʊt/ UK
  • /ɡəwt/ British, Southern, Standard
  • /ɡoːt/ Northumbria, Scotland, UK
  • /ɡoʊt/ US
  • [ɡoʊ̯ʔt̚] US
  • [ɡoʊ̯ʔ] US
  • [ɡöʊ̯ʔ] US
  • /ɡoʊt/ Canada
  • [ɡoʊ̯ʔt̚] Canada
  • [ɡoːt] Canada
  • /ɡəʉt/ Australia
  • [ɡəʉ̯t] Australia
  • [ɡɐʉ̯t] Australia
  • /ɡɐʉt/ New Zealand

Rhymes with -əʊt

Where it comes from

Inherited from Middle English goot, got, gat, from Old English gāt, from Proto-West Germanic *gait, from Proto-Germanic *gaits, from a substrate language.

The sense of lecherous man derives from the slang expression “horny as a goat”.

noun goats

  1. countable, uncountable Any ruminant of the genus Capra. The first thing that greets you on entering the church is a notice asking you not to vex the goat, since it renders valuable service in keeping the churchyard tidy.
  2. uncountable The meat of these animals. Hungrily, by firelight, we set to with damper and cold goat washed down by hot tea.
  3. countable, slang, uncountable A lecherous man.
  4. countable, informal, uncountable A scapegoat. 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.
  5. countable, slang, uncountable A Pontiac GTO car.
  6. countable, uncountable A person who is not easily understood by a speech recognition system; contrasted with sheep.
  7. countable, uncountable A fool, loser, or object of ridicule. 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.”
  8. countable, uncountable A blocker who is isolated behind the opposing team's blockers, so as to slow down the pack.

verb goats · goating · goated

  1. transitive To allow goats to feed on. 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. John Rocker, meanwhile, was spared from getting goated because he didn't blow a save
  3. transitive To isolate (an opposing blocker) behind one's own blockers, so as to slow down the pack.

goat²

  • /ɡəʊt/ UK
  • /ɡəwt/ British, Southern, Standard
  • /ɡoːt/ Northumbria, Scotland, UK
  • /ɡoʊt/ US
  • [ɡoʊ̯ʔt̚] US
  • [ɡoʊ̯ʔ] US
  • [ɡöʊ̯ʔ] US
  • /ɡoʊt/ Canada
  • [ɡoʊ̯ʔt̚] Canada
  • [ɡoːt] Canada
  • /ɡəʉt/ Australia
  • [ɡəʉ̯t] Australia
  • [ɡɐʉ̯t] Australia
  • /ɡɐʉt/ New Zealand

Rhymes with -əʊt

noun goats

  1. abbreviation, acronym Alternative letter-case form of GOAT (“greatest of all time”).

goat³

  • /ɡəʊt/ UK
  • /ɡəwt/ British, Southern, Standard
  • /ɡoːt/ Northumbria, Scotland, UK
  • /ɡoʊt/ US
  • [ɡoʊ̯ʔt̚] US
  • [ɡoʊ̯ʔ] US
  • [ɡöʊ̯ʔ] US
  • /ɡoʊt/ Canada
  • [ɡoʊ̯ʔt̚] Canada
  • [ɡoːt] Canada
  • /ɡəʉt/ Australia
  • [ɡəʉ̯t] Australia
  • [ɡɐʉ̯t] Australia
  • /ɡɐʉt/ New Zealand

Rhymes with -əʊt

noun goats

  1. alternative, obsolete, possibly Alternative form of gote (“sluice, waterway”). ... the present new Sluice or Goat (as they call it) at the end of Hamorebeck, at its fall into Boston Haven, taking up the foundation of the old Goat, they met with the roots of Trees, many of them issuing from their several[…]

GOAT⁴

noun GOATs · G.O.A.T. · G. O. A. T. · GoAT · GoaT · Goat

  1. abbreviation, acronym, slang Acronym of greatest of all time Messi is the GOAT of football.
  2. UK, informal A member of the "government of all the talents" proposed by British prime minister Gordon Brown. The best talents; of course he was a GOAT.

Goat⁵

proper noun the Goat

  1. The constellation and zodiacal sign Capricornus. The Balance shows redemption’s need; The Scorpion wounds He must endure; The Archer tells His coming sure; The Goat, His death in sacrifice[.]

    Similar: Horned Goat, Sea-goat

  2. The eighth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.

GoAT⁶

noun

  1. alternative Alternative form of GOAT

GoaT⁷

noun

  1. alternative Alternative form of GOAT

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: butt, laughingstock, stooge, caprine animal, hare, caprine, sheep, mutton, beard, goatee, scape, nanny, bandit, victim, fantasy, product

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noun animal

Españolcabra, chivo
한국어염소 yeomso, 산양 sanyang
日本語ヤギ yagi, 山羊 yagi
中文羊 yáng, 山羊 shānyáng
हिन्दीबकरी bakrī, बकरा bakrā
Kiswahilimbuzi
Portuguêsbode, cabra
Françaischèvre, bouc, bique
DeutschZiege, Geiß, Bock
Italianocapra
Ελληνικάκατσίκα katsíka, γίδα gída, γίδι gídi
Românăcapră, țap
Русскийкоза́ kozá, козёл kozjól
Tiếng Việtdê, con dê
العربيةمَاعِز māʕiz, عَنْزَة ʕanza
עבריתתיש \ תַּיִשׁ táyish, עז \ עֵז ez

noun lecherous man

Españollibidinoso, libidinosa
Italianocapra
Ελληνικάτράγος trágos

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@misc{goat_2026,
  title = {goat},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/goat},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}