Other forms: goats
A goat is a farm animal with horns that eats almost anything. A herd of goats, goat's cheese, a mountain goat.
The reputation for eating anything is half deserved: goats browse rather than graze and taste everything, which is why they strip a hedge and chew a shirt. They have rectangular pupils and can climb astonishingly steep rock. In modern slang the GOAT is the greatest of all time, from the initials.
1noungoatA horned farm animal kept for milk and meat.
“The goats climbed up the rocks, looking for plants to eat.”
goat is an animal.
Old English gat is a Germanic word for the animal, from a source outside Indo-European. Its ultimate origin is unknown.
Middle English
goot
English, today
goat
From Middle English goot. Middle English goot, got, gat, from Old English gāt, from Proto-West Germanic gait, from Proto-Germanic gaits, from a qfa-sub language. The sense of lecherous man derives from the slang expression "horny as a goat".
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA