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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
goat
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
billy goat
goat's cheese (=made from goat's milk)
mountain goat
nanny goat
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
old
▪ And a word of advice just you be careful of that old goat, Moreton.
▪ As well as taking kids, eagles also try to flush or knock older goats off ledges.
▪ What's the old goat on about anyway?
▪ She pushed open the door into the old goat shed.
wild
▪ There Dionysus gave them food and drink: herbs and berries and the milk of the wild goat.
▪ It has close to it a park that provides pasture for a large herd of deer and wild goats.
▪ Roberts has found the prints of wolves, wild boar, goats, wild horse and sheep.
▪ The prisoner ran like a wild goat, and soon I saw that he was coming near the bottom of my hill.
▪ These islands are uninhabited, except for a few wild goats, rabbits and birds.
▪ The wild goats, highly fertile and able to drink sea water if necessary, are probably the biggest single danger.
▪ Today it is sometimes visited by sportsmen in search of wild goats.
■ NOUN
billy
▪ The Characters Three billy goat brothers: Hungry.
▪ Very soon the biggest billy goat came across the bridge.
▪ Then you can come here and see auctions, and people bringing everything from a billy goat to an elephant.
▪ The first billy goat makes just a little noise and has a tiny voice.
▪ The oldest and biggest billy goat knocked the troll into the stream, and no one ever heard from him again.
cheese
▪ Crumble the goat cheese and let come to room temperature.
▪ Reduce heat and boil and mirrors the tart goat cheese. gently, stirring occasionally until thick, 30 to 35 minutes.
▪ And they ate Papparadelle Ripiene stuffed with goat cheese and Parmesan and covered with a grated lemon peel and cream sauce.
▪ Redwood Hill Crottin: A small goat cheese made in Sebastopol. 2.
▪ Between the two, there's a warm goat cheese croquette with beet tartare, oysters Rockefeller, and other seductive offerings.
▪ Remove cabbage from pan, place alongside pheasant, and top with goat cheese and bacon.
▪ In a mixing bowl, crush the goat cheese with a fork until smooth.
mountain
▪ In fact it seems likely that mountain goats are very successful at avoiding all these predators.
▪ In truth, these peregrinations required the talents of a mountain goat.
▪ If they are cornered by a predator, mountain goats will not hesitate to use their horns to defend themselves.
▪ As in mountain goats and other animals, fighting occurs only between similarly matched individuals.
▪ These have several compartments - four in the case of the mountain goat.
▪ The predators that mountain goats appear to fear most are eagles.
▪ During a typical summer's day, a mountain goat may travel around a kilometre in search of food.
▪ But the mountain goat is big enough to have relatively few predators.
■ VERB
keep
▪ He was reminded of his childhood and of his father's farm; they too had kept a couple of goats.
▪ Stedman kept a herd of goats on the island opposite.
▪ So unless you keep goats only for your own needs, you are covered by these Regulations.
▪ Granny was not keeping goats at the moment, but her home-made beekeeping equipment was neatly laid out on a bench.
▪ He just wants to keep the goat tethered -; here, where he can see it.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
separate the sheep from the goats
separate the sheep from the goats
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And they ate Papparadelle Ripiene stuffed with goat cheese and Parmesan and covered with a grated lemon peel and cream sauce.
▪ Johnny knew that was wrong, and with his stick, he tried to shoo the goats out.
▪ The eagle still had its talons in the goat, and the goat had its horns embedded in the eagle.
▪ Very soon the biggest billy goat came across the bridge.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Goat

Goat \Goat\ (g[=o]t), n. [OE goot, got, gat, AS. g[=a]t; akin to D. geit, OHG. geiz, G. geiss, Icel. geit, Sw. get, Dan. ged, Goth. gaits, L. haedus a young goat, kid.] (Zo["o]l.) A hollow-horned ruminant of the genus Capra, of several species and varieties, esp. the domestic goat ( Capra hircus), which is raised for its milk, flesh, and skin. Note: The Cashmere and Angora varieties of the goat have long, silky hair, used in the manufacture of textile fabrics. The wild or bezoar goat ( Capra [ae]gagrus), of Asia Minor, noted for the bezoar stones found in its stomach, is supposed to be one of the ancestral species of the domestic goat. The Rocky Mountain goat ( Haplocercus montanus) is more nearly related to the antelopes. See Mazame. Goat antelope (Zo["o]l), one of several species of antelopes, which in some respects resemble a goat, having recurved horns, a stout body, large hoofs, and a short, flat tail, as the goral, thar, mazame, and chikara. Goat fig (Bot.), the wild fig. Goat house.

  1. A place for keeping goats.

  2. A brothel. [Obs.]

    Goat moth (Zo["o]l.), any moth of the genus Cossus, esp. the large European species ( Cossus ligniperda), the larva of which burrows in oak and willow trees, and requires three years to mature. It exhales an odor like that of the he-goat.

    Goat weed (Bot.), a scrophulariaceous plant, of the genus Capraria ( Capraria biflora).

    Goat's bane (Bot.), a poisonous plant ( Aconitum Lucoctonum), bearing pale yellow flowers, introduced from Switzerland into England; wolfsbane.

    Goat's foot (Bot.), a kind of wood sorrel ( Oxalis caprina) growing at the Cape of Good Hope.

    Goat's rue (Bot.), a leguminous plant ( Galega officinalis of Europe, or Tephrosia Virginiana in the United States).

    Goat's thorn (Bot.), a thorny leguminous plant ( Astragalus Tragacanthus), found in the Levant.

    Goat's wheat (Bot.), the genus Tragopyrum (now referred to Atraphaxis).

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
goat

Old English gat "she-goat," from Proto-Germanic *gaitaz (cognates: Old Saxon get, Old Norse geit, Danish gjed, Middle Dutch gheet, Dutch geit, Old High German geiz, German Geiß, Gothic gaits "goat"), from PIE *ghaid-o- "young goat," also forming words for "to play" (cognates: Latin hædus "kid").\n

\nThe word for "male goat" in Old English was bucca (see buck (n.)) until late 1300s shift to he-goat, she-goat (Nanny goat is 18c., billy goat 19c.). Meaning "licentious man" is attested from 1670s. To get (someone's) goat is from 1910, perhaps with notion of "to steal a goat mascot from a racehorse," or from French prendre sa chèvre "take one's source of milk."

Wiktionary
goat

n. 1 A mammal, ''Capra aegagrus hircus'', and similar species of the genus ''Capra''. 2 (context slang English) A lecherous man. 3 (context informal English) A scapegoat. 4 Nickname for the Pontiac GTO vb. 1 (context transitive English) To allow goats to feed on. 2 (context transitive English) To scapegoat.

WordNet
goat
  1. n. any of numerous agile ruminants related to sheep but having a beard and straight horns [syn: caprine animal]

  2. a victim of ridicule or pranks [syn: butt, laughingstock, stooge]

  3. (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Capricorn [syn: Capricorn]

  4. the tenth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about December 22 to January 19 [syn: Capricorn, Capricorn the Goat]

Wikipedia
Goat (zodiac)

The Goat is the eighth sign of the 12-year cycle of animals that appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar. The sign is also referred to as the Ram or Sheep sign, since the Chinese word yáng is more accurately translated as Caprinae, a taxonomic subfamily which includes both sheep and goats.

The Year of the Goat (alternatively, Year of the Ram or Year of the Sheep) is associated with the 8th Earthly Branch symbol, (wèi).

Goat (musician)

Andy Rosen, stage name Goat, is an American singer, best known for his song "Great Life", which appeared on the soundtrack of the film, I Know What You Did Last Summer.

The same song is perhaps more recognizable from its repeated airings in a Kia Sportage broadcast beginning in 2004, and played as people of various stripes toss the car keys to one another.

Born in Cleveland, Rosen's father Al Rosen was a star third baseman for the Cleveland Indians.

Goat recorded a cover version of Fall Out Boy's "Sugar, We're Goin' Down", for Engine Room Recordings' compilation album, Guilt by Association, released on September 4, 2007.

Goat (disambiguation)

A goat is a mammal.

Goat or goats may also refer to:

Goat (album)

Goat is the second full-length studio album by The Jesus Lizard, released in 1991. It is their most acclaimed album, with many critics calling it one of the best albums of the 1990s. The album was produced by Steve Albini.

Its cover art, by bassist David Wm. Sims, at first glance resembles a flame, but is actually a topless woman with a close-up image of nails projected onto her body. The rear of the album, and several panels of the enclosed CD booklet include similar pictures of the same naked woman, with different images projected onto her body. It was ranked as the 38th best album of the 1990s by the online magazine Pitchfork Media.

Goat (band)

Goat is a Swedish alternative and experimental fusion music group. The band originates—according to its own publicity—from Korpilombolo, Norrbotten County, Sweden. Their album World Music, released on 20 August 2012 by Rocket Recordings, was hailed by The Guardian as one of the best albums of 2012.

Goat (2016 film)

Goat is a 2016 American drama film directed by Andrew Neel and written by David Gordon Green, Neel and Mike Roberts. It stars Ben Schnetzer, Nick Jonas, Gus Halper, Danny Flaherty, Jake Picking, Virginia Gardner and James Franco. The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 22, 2016. The film is scheduled to be released on September 23, 2016, by The Film Arcade.

Goat (2015 film)

Goat is a 2015 Slovak drama film directed by Ivan Ostrochovský. It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. The film was selected as the Slovak entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards but it was not nominated.

Goat

The domestic goat (Capra aegagrus hircus) is a subspecies of goat domesticated from the wild goat of southwest Asia and Eastern Europe.

The goat is a member of the family Bovidae and is closely related to the sheep as both are in the goat-antelope subfamily Caprinae. There are over 300 distinct breeds of goat. Goats are one of the oldest domesticated species, and have been used for their milk, meat, hair, and skins over much of the world. In 2011, there were more than 924 million live goats around the globe, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.

Female goats are referred to as "does" or "nannies;" intact males are called "bucks" or "billies;" and juveniles of both sexes are called "kids". Castrated males are called "wethers". Goat meat from younger animals is called "kid" or cabrito (Spanish), while meat from older animals is known simply as "goat" or sometimes called chevon (French), or in some areas " mutton" (which more often refers to adult sheep meat).

Usage examples of "goat".

Mya liked to say that her father had been a goat and her mother an owl, but Alayne had gotten the true story from Maddy.

He dodged aloose goat, a handcart crusted with dried mortar, and ducked the invitation of a blowzy woman festooned in scarlet ribbons.

Of a hundred musmons which had been surrounded, more than two-thirds escaped, but at last, thirty of these animals and ten wild goats were gradually driven back towards the corral, the open door of which appearing to offer a means of escape, they rushed in and were prisoners.

Their Thor and Odin were at first, probably, only the thunder and the wind: but they had to be appeased in the dark marches of the forest, where hung rotting on the sacred oaks, amid carcases of goat and horse, the carcases of human victims.

Fifteen pounds of cold tortellini salad, two hundred miniature asparagus tarts, three platters of herbed goat cheese, and a hundred and fifty spring rolls had no doubt been loaded back into the Right Touch Catering van.

The paper had one other general reporter, Baggy Suggs, a pickled old goat who spent his hours hanging around the courthouse across the street sniffing for gossip and drinking bourbon with a small club of washed-up lawyers too old and too drunk to practice anymore.

More ominously, Lisa noted a collection of goats and blue bharal sheep gathered in the penned corrals.

There was a biggish kraal in the bottom, and a lot of goats and leggy Kaffir sheep on the slopes.

Billy was getting tired of the slow gait and being made to stay between the engine and hose-cart instead of riding on the hose-cart as he had been in the habit of doing, when he heard the plaintive bleat of a goat and the sound of a whip.

The other goat opened his mouth to bleat but no sound came from it and Billy stared at the new-comer harder than ever but the stranger goat only stared back.

Now it made Billy mad to have a goat mock everything he did, so he bleated for him to stop immediately or he would hook him down the front stair.

A small group of Bondels huddled among some rocks: men, women, children and a few starved-looking goats.

So he began to study the geographical distribution of the goat with the zeal of an anthropologist localising dolicocephalic and brachycephalic races.

In the hungry times before the goddess came he had been generous to Davey and Buglet, with bowls of milk and bits of sun-dried goat meat, and he still liked to share his desert lore and his peyote buttons on fiesta days.

So the autumn and winter passed, and again the sun came shining down on the white walls of the opposite houses, and Heidi would think to herself that now the time had come for Peter to go out again with the goats, to where the golden flowers of the cistus were glowing in the sunlight, and all the rocks around turned to fire at sunset.