goat-hornedadj.
/ˈɡəʊtˌhɔːnd/, U.S. /ˈɡoʊtˌhɔrnd/ Having the horns of a goat or horns like those of a goat.Recorded earliest in goat-horned sheep n. at Compounds.
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1757 J. Dyer Fleece i. 14 Goat-horn'd sheep, of fleece Hairy and coarse.
1822 London Mag. Feb. 161/1 An ill-conditioned group of goat-horned, goat-footed, goat-tailed, goggle-eyed, wrinkle-faced, yahoo-like caricatures of humanity.
1844 G. Emerson Johnson's Farmer's Encycl. (new ed.) 204/2 One family of the capricorn or goat-horned beetles, derives its name of Prionidæ from a Greek word signifying saw.
1914 Jrnl. Rom. Stud. 4 171 Female heads with helmets adorned with bovine horns, that apparently represent a divinity akin to the goat-horned Iuno Lanuvina of the neighbouring temple at Civita Lavinia.
1958 Folklore 69 45 Behind the good saint hovers the black, shaggy, goat-horned figure of the Krampus.
2010 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 1 Dec. d8/4 While Americans content themselves with Rudolph and Frosty, rural Austrians revere a..malevolent goat-horned demon.
Compounds
goat-horned sheep n. any of several primitive varieties of sheep with small straight or slightly curved horns, typical of prehistoric domesticated flocks in Europe; also called turbary sheep (turbary n. Compounds 2).
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1757 J. Dyer Fleece i. 14 Goat-horn'd sheep, of fleece Hairy and coarse.
1863 C. Lyell Geol. Evid. Antiq. Man 26 The small race of goat-horned sheep still lingers in some Alpine valleys of the Upper Rhine.
1882 R. Munro Anc. Sc. Lake-dwellings iv. 238 This is probably the so-called goat-horned sheep, scarcely now to be got in Shetland.
1996 K. A. Seaver Frozen Echo ii. 54 The cattle at Ø17a [sc. a site in Greenland] were of the small medieval type, while the goats and ‘goat-horned’ sheep were more like the modern Icelandic breeds.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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