goat
(goʊt )
Word forms: goats
countable noun B1+
A goat is a farm animal or a wild animal that is about the size of a sheep. Goats have horns, and hairs on their chin which resemble a beard.
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Idioms:
get someone's goat
to annoy someone
It was a bad result and a bad performance, but what really got the media's goat was the manager's refusal to take all the blame.
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act the goat [British]
to behave in a silly way
Betty had a little yellow umbrella up. I acted the goat a bit, turning and waving umpteen times till she was laughing.
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Translations:
Chinese: 山羊
Japanese: ヤギ
- quench the flames
- querulous
- query
- quest
- questing
- question
- questionable
- questionable assumption
- questionable behaviour
- questionable circumstances
- questionable claim
- questionable decision
- questionable judgment
- questionable methods
- questionable practice
- questionable tactics
- questionable taste
- questionable use of
- questionable value
- question a claim
- question a decision
- question an ability
- question an assumption
- question-and-answer format
- question a notion