- an animal with horns and a coat of hair, that lives wild in mountain areas or is kept on farms for its milk or meat
- a mountain goat
- goat's milk
- Tethered goats grazed among the apple trees.
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- old goat (informal) an old man who you think is unpleasant and annoying in a sexual way
Word OriginOld English gāt ‘nanny goat’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch geit and German Geiss, also to Latin haedus ‘kid’.
Idioms
See goat in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryget somebody’s goat
- (informal) to annoy somebody very much
sort out/separate the sheep from the goats
- to recognize the difference between people who are good at something, intelligent, etc. and those who are not
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