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单词 goatweed
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goat /gōt/

noun
  1. A horned ruminant animal (genus Capra) of Europe, Asia and N Africa, related to the sheep
  2. (with cap and the) Capricorn
  3. A lecher (figurative)
  4. A foolish person (informal)
  5. (in pl) the wicked (Bible)
ORIGIN: OE gāt; Ger Geiss, Du geit

goatˈish adjective

  1. Resembling a goat, esp in smell
  2. Lustful
  3. Foolish

goatˈishly adverb

goatˈishness noun

goatˈling noun

A young goat in its second year

goatˈy adjective

goatˈ-antelope noun

A goatlike antelope, or an animal intermediate between goat and antelope, such as the chamois and the goral

goatˈ-fig noun

The wild fig

goatˈfish noun (N American)

The red mullet

goat fuck noun (US taboo sl)

A chaotic situation, thoroughly confused muddle

goatˈ-god noun

Pan

goatˈherd noun

A person who tends goats

goatˈ-moth noun

A large moth whose larvae feed on wood and exude a goatlike smell

goatˈ-sallow or goatˈ-willow noun

The great sallow (Salix caprea)

goat'sˈ-beard noun

  1. A composite plant of the genus Tragopogon, John-go-to-bed-at-noon
  2. A herbaceous perennial with ornamental foliage (Aruncus sylvester)

goat'sˈ-hair noun

Cirrus clouds

goatˈskin noun

  1. The skin of the goat
  2. Leather, or a wineskin, made from it

goat'sˈ-rue noun

A papilionaceous border and fodder plant (Galega officinalis)

goat'sˈ-thorn noun

A shrub of the genus Astragalus

goatˈsucker noun (chiefly N American)

The nightjar, a bird similar to the swift, falsely thought to suck goats' udders for milk

goatˈweed noun

Goutweed

goat-willow see goat-sallow above.

get someone's goat (informal)

To annoy or rile someone

play (or act) the (giddy) goat see under giddy

gout1 /gowt/

noun
  1. A disease in which excess of uric acid in the blood is deposited as urates in the joints, etc, with swelling esp of the big toe
  2. A related disease of poultry affecting the viscera
  3. A swelling of the stalk in wheat and other grasses, caused by goutfly larvae
  4. A drop, spot (archaic)
ORIGIN: OFr goutte, from L gutta a drop, the disease once supposed to be caused by a defluxion of humours

goutˈiness noun

goutˈy adjective

  1. Relating to gout
  2. Diseased with or subject to gout

goutˈfly noun

A fly (genus Chlorops) whose larvae cause gout by boring in wheat, etc

goutˈweed or goutˈwort noun

An umbelliferous weed (Aegopodium podagraria), long supposed to be good for gout, also called bishˈop('s)weed or goatˈweed

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