goat
/ɡoʊt/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.02 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person who is not easily understood by a speech recognition system; contrasted with sheep.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The first thing that greets you on entering the church is a notice asking you not to vex the goat, since it renders valuable service in keeping the churchyard tidy."
- "Folkestone: Network Rail and the White Cliffs Countryside Project have procured a herd of goats to keep vegetation on the slopes of Folkestone Warren under control, and to encourage rare species."
- "Hungrily, by firelight, we set to with damper and cold goat washed down by hot tea."
- "Joshua could not stop himself from scooping more goat on his plate: Paul had cooked it so long that the meat seemed to melt like hot, syrupy candy in his mouth. Joshua remembered goat as a stringy dark meat, but the red spicy mass before him was nothing like he recalled."
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
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".
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɡoʊt/
- British English: /ɡəʊt/
Usage
Inflected Forms
goats (plural)
goats (present, singular)
goating (participle, present)
goated (participle, past)
goated (past)
G.O.A.T. (alternative)
G. O. A. T. (alternative)
🐐 (alternative)
𓃵 (alternative)
the Goat (canonical)