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Added 8 October 2026

goat

/ɡəʊt/ noun

In Latin: caper, capra, hircus Wiktionary

noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about goat at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

Any ruminant of the genus Capra. The meat of these animals.
The meat of these animals.
A lecherous man.

verb

To allow goats to feed on.
To scapegoat.
To isolate (an opposing blocker) behind one's own blockers, so as to slow down the pack.

noun

Alternative letter-case form of GOAT (“greatest of all time”).

noun

Alternative form of gote (“sluice, waterway”).

Origin

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".

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