an animal with horns and a coat of hair, that lives wild in mountain areas or is kept on farms for its milk or meat 山羊 a mountain goat 山羊 goat's milk 羊奶 Tethered goats grazed among the apple trees. 拴着的山羊在苹果林里吃草。
- old goat (informal)
an unpleasant old man who is annoying in a sexual way 老色鬼；色狼；好色之徒
Word OriginOld English gāt ‘nanny goat’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch geit and German Geiss, also to Latin haedus ‘kid’.
Idioms
get somebody’s goat
- (informal)
to annoy somebody very much 使某人大怒
sort out/separate the sheep from the goats
to recognize the difference between people who are good at something, intelligent, etc. and those who are not 区分能手与常人；分清智者和庸人