From Middle English goot, got, gat, from Old English gāt, from Proto-West Germanic *gait, from Proto-Germanic *gaits, from a qfa-sub language.

The sense of lecherous man derives from the slang expression "horny as a goat".

• (RP) IPA: /ɡəʊt/
• (SSB) IPA: /ɡəwt/
• (America) IPA: /ɡoʊt/, [ɡoʊʔt̚]
• (Scotland, Canada, North-East England) IPA: /ɡoːt/
• (Australia, New Zealand) IPA: /ɡɐʉt/

goat

1. A mammal, Capra aegagrus hircus, and similar species of the genus Capra.
   1. (uncountable) The meat of the aforementioned animal.

      Ugh, we're having goat for dinner again.

2. (slang) A lecherous man.
3. (informal) A scapegoat.
   • 2008 August 6, “Tigers already miss Jones”, in Royal Oak Daily Tribune, Michigan:

     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.

4. (slang) A Pontiac GTO car.
5. (speech recognition) A person who is not easily understood by a speech recognition system; contrasted with sheep.
6. A fool, loser, or object of ridicule.
7. (roller derby) A blocker who is isolated behind the opposing team's blockers, so as to slow down the pack.
8. (acronym)

• (lecherous man) See also Thesaurus:libertine
• (scapegoat) See also Thesaurus:scapegoat

• French: chèvre, bouc, bique
• German: Ziege, Geiß, Bock
• Italian: capra
• Portuguese: bode, cabra
• Russian: коза́
• Spanish: cabra, chivo

• Italian: capra
• Spanish: libidinoso, libidinosa

goat (goats, present participle goating; simple past and past participle goated)

1. (transitive) To allow goats to feed on.
   • 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

2. (transitive) To scapegoat.
3. (transitive, roller derby) To isolate (an opposing blocker) behind one's own blockers, so as to slow down the pack.

Abbreviation.

goat (plural goats)

1. (slang) Acronym of greatest of all time
2. (UK, politics, informal) A member of the "government of all the talents" proposed by British prime minister Gordon Brown.
   • 2009, Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Public Administration Select Committee, Good government: eighth report of session 2008-09, volume 2

     The best talents; of course he was a GOAT.

   • 2011, Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Public Administration Select Committee, Bernard Jenkin, Smaller Government: Report, Together with Formal Minutes

     One of the problems with the GOATs was that the parliamentary and political role was undersold to them.

• BOAT
• of all time
• all-time
• WOAT

1. The eighth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.