goat

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

goat [goat goats] BrE [ɡəʊt] NAmE [ɡoʊt] noun
1. 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/cheese
see also ↑billy goat, ↑kid, ↑nanny goat
2. old ~ (informal)an unpleasant old man who is annoying in a sexual way
more at sort out/separate the sheep from the goats at ↑sheep
Idiom: ↑get somebody's goat

Word Origin:
Old English gāt ‘nanny goat’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch geit and German Geiss, also to Latin haedus ‘kid’.

Example Bank:
•Tethered goats grazed among the apple trees.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  Capricorn, Capricorn the Goat, Goat, butt, laughingstock, stooge, caprine animal