Goat

Noun

 * 1) Any of various ruminant mammals, of the genus Capra, related to the sheep.  A group of goats is referred to as a tribe: or a herd:.
 * 2)  A lecherous man.
 * 3) * etymology: from the slang term "horny as a goat"
 * 4)  A scapegoat
 * 5) * 2008, "Tigers already miss Jones", in Royal Oak Daily Tribune (Michigan), Aug 6, 2008
 * 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.
 * 1) * 1997, "1997 World Series", Game 7, bottom 11th inning, TV broadcast on NBC Sports, early morning October 27, 1997; words by Bob Costas
 * Tony Fernández, who has worn hero's laurels throughout the postseason including earlier in this seventh game of the World Series, now cruel as it may seem, perhaps being fitted for goat horns.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:libertine

Derived terms

 * billygoat
 * get one’s goat
 * goat's breath
 * goatfish
 * goatee


 * goatherd
 * goatish
 * goatpox
 * mountain goat
 * scapegoat

Verb

 * 1)  To allow goats to feed on.
 * 2) * 1918, Agricultural Experiment Station, Director's Biennial Report - Page 51
 * 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
 * 1)  To scapegoat.
 * 2) * 2001, "A worthy Rusch to judgment", in USA Today, July 15, 2001
 * John Rocker, meanwhile, was spared from getting goated because he didn't blow a save

Adjectives for Goat
romantic; silky; browsing; sure-footed; metamorphosed; mutinous; sacrificial.

Verbs for Goat
domesticate—; clip—; exercise—; fleece—; herd—s; pasture—; shear—; stall—; tether —; —attacks; —butts; —forages; —grazes; —leaps; —pastures; —supplies; —yields.

Thesaurus
Priapus, aphrodisiomaniac, balker, balky horse, billy, billy goat, broad jumper, buck, bucking bronco, buckjumper, butt, byword, byword of reproach, crock, crowbait, derision, dirty old man, doe, doeling, dog, dupe, eroticomaniac, erotomaniac, fair game, fall guy, figure of fun, flea, fool, frog, game, garron, gazelle, gazingstock, grasshopper, gynecomaniac, hack, he-goat, high jumper, hopper, hurdle racer, hurdler, jackrabbit, jade, jest, jestingstock, joke, jughead, jumper, jumping bean, jumping jack, kangaroo, kid, laughingstock, leaper, lecher, mockery, monkey, mountain goat, nag, nanny, nanny goat, old goat, patsy, plug, pole vaulter, roarer, rogue, rosinante, salmon, satyr, scalawag, scapegoat, she-goat, stag, stiff, stock, sunfisher, target, timber topper, toy, vaulter, victim, whipping boy, whistler, whoremaster, whoremonger

Etymology
gat:, from (compare  geit:,  Geiß:, Danish ged:), from  'kid, goat' (compare  haedus: 'kid',  заѩць: 'hare',  ձի: 'horse',  हय: 'horse', जिहीते: 'he jumps').

Noun

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian: dhi
 * Amuzgo: kínch'ió
 * Arabic:
 * Aragonese: craba
 * Armenian:, նոխազ, , քաղ
 * Old Armenian:, , ,
 * Azeri:
 * Basque: ,
 * Belarusian:
 * Breton: gavr
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: cabra
 * Cebuano: kanding
 * Cherokee: ᎤᎦᏐᏣᏁᏛ (ugasotsanedv)
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Ewe: gbɔ̃
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, bouc
 * Friulian: cjavre
 * Galician: cabra
 * Georgian: ,
 * German: ,
 * Gothic:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient:
 * Modern:, , ,
 * Hebrew: עֵז (ez)
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Acehnese: kamèng
 * Buginese: bembe
 * Javanese: wedus
 * Kaili: tovau
 * Sunda: êmbé
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: ешкі, теке
 * Kikuyu:
 * Kirundi: impene
 * Korean: 염소 (yeomso), 산양 (sanyang)
 * Kurdish: بزن
 * Ladin: cioura
 * Lao:


 * Latgalian: ,
 * Latin:, ,
 * Latvian:, āzis
 * Laz:
 * Lithuanian: ožka ; ožys
 * Lower Sorbian:
 * Luxembourgish: Geess
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay:
 * Maltese:
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan: cabra
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Glagolitic:
 * Old Irish:
 * Persian:
 * Polabian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romani: buzno, buzni
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: chaura
 * Russian: ,
 * Sami: gáica
 * Santali:
 * Sardinian: craba, becca
 * Scots: gait
 * Scottish Gaelic: gobhar
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic:, јарац
 * Roman:, jarac
 * Sicilian: beccu, crapa
 * Slovak: ,
 * Slovene: ,
 * Sotho:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Sumerian:
 * Swahili: mbuzi (noun 9/10)
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: kambing
 * Telugu: మేక (mEka)
 * Thai: (phae)
 * Tswana: (9/10)
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:, ,
 * Upper Sorbian:
 * Uyghur: ئۆچكە
 * Vietnamese: dê, con dê
 * Volapük: kapar,  hikapar,  jikapar,  kaparül
 * Welsh: gafr
 * West Frisian: geit
 * Wolof: bëy
 * !Xóõ: páli


 * Danish:


 * Finnish: pukki

Anagrams

 * toga

Noun
goat


 * 1) shoot (of a plant)