goat

CEFRA2

/ɡəʊt/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A farm animal with horns, kept for milk or meat.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A lecherous man.

Examples

  • He can not tell a sheep from a goat.

  • It is easy to get the cranky man's goat by teasing him.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5

Also pronounced

  • /ɡəwt/
  • /ɡoːt/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. Any ruminant of the genus Capra., The meat of these animals.

  2. Any hoofed mammal of the genus Capra.

  3. Any ruminant of the genus Capra.

More examples

In context

  • Not hardly. He eats like a goat.

  • The best talents; of course he was a GOAT.

  • Messi is the GOAT of football.

Quick test

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Origin

noun

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".