| 单词 | goat-getter |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgoat-getter goat-getter n. [after to get a person's goat at Phrases 4 (compare Phrases 4a); compare goat-getting adj. and n.] colloquial a person who or thing which makes another person angry, annoyed, or irritated, esp. deliberately.Earliest in Boxing context. ΚΠ 1908 Bureau County (Illinois) Tribune 20 Mar. 1/2 The La Salle lady..disposed of her opponent.., putting her away with a wicked left to the solar plexus, followed by a goat-getter to the point of the jaw with her right. 1911 C. E. Van Loan Big League iv. 105 The men of the Gamecocks were specialists, welded by a baseball genius into the snappiest, scrappiest collection of fence breakers, umpire baiters, and ‘goat getters’ in professional baseball. 1967 Boating Jan. 45/1 In this day everyone is an expert, but the real goat-getter is the breezy one with the nasal voice that carries all over the dock. 2014 Express (Scottish ed.) (Nexis) 10 Mar. 14 Many thanks for all your correspondence stating what gets your goat about modern living. Alan Thomassen..speaks for many when he cites his major goat-getter as bad manners. < as lemmas |
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