Phrase Hound found 32 phrases and 12 compound words that contain goats. The most common are listed below. Open goats in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 32
- goats' milkAlternative form of goat's milk: Milk that is produced by goats.
- separate the sheep from the goatsTo divide the members of a group into those that are superior and those that are inferior.
- mountain goatsplural of mountain goat: A sure-footed goat antelope, of the species Oreamnos americanus, of the North American mountains, having black curved horns and a shaggy coat.
- nanny goatsplural of nanny goat: A female goat.
- wild goatsplural of wild goat: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see wild, goat.
- Judas goatsplural of Judas goat: A goat trained to lead other goats (or sheep) to a place of slaughter.
- fainting goatsplural of fainting goat: a breed of domestic goat characterised by a genetic disorder known as myotonia congenita, wherein the muscles freeze for roughly 3 seconds when the goat feels panic
- Nubian goatsplural of Nubian goat: A large breed of long-eared goat originating in the United Kingdom.
- Saanen goatsplural of Saanen goat: A white or cream-colored breed of goat.
- sons of motherless goatsplural of son of a motherless goat: An objectionable person.
- Alpine goatsplural of Alpine goat: A breed of medium to large domestic goat that originated in the French Alps.
- billy goatsplural of billy goat: A male goat.
- buck-goatsplural of buck-goat: Synonym of buck (“a male goat”)
- bush goatsplural of bush goat: Cephalophus niger, a forest-dwelling duiker found in the southern parts of Sierra Leone, Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Benin, and Nigeria.
- escape goatsplural of escape goat: Eggcorn of scapegoat.
- fish-goatsplural of fish-goat: A sea goat (upper half goat, lower half fish).
- gnu goatsplural of gnu goat: Budorcas taxicolor
- mouse-goatsplural of mouse-goat: An extinct genus of goat-antelope (†Myotragus), which lived on the Balearic Islands in the late Pleistocene and early Holocene.
- sea goatsplural of sea goat: A mythical beast with the upper half of a goat and the lower half of a fish; commonly used to figure the constellation Capricornus.
- speed goatsplural of speed goat: A North American mammal, Antilocapra americana, that resembles an antelope.
- spider goatsplural of spider goat: A goat that has a spider's genes, and produces silk during lactation.
- yellow goatsplural of yellow goat: The dzeren or Mongolian gazelle.
- shawl goatsplural of shawl goat: The Cashmere goat.
- Rocky Mountain goatsplural of Rocky Mountain goat: A mountain goat.
- Galician goatsplural of Galician goat: Capra aegagrus hircus, a breed of goat originating from Galicia.
Compound words 12
- scapegoatsplural of scapegoat: In the Mosaic Day of Atonement ritual, a goat symbolically imbued with the sins of the people, and sent out alive into the wilderness while another was sacrificed.
- billygoatsplural of billygoat: A male goat.
- escapegoatsplural of escapegoat: In the Mosaic Day of Atonement ritual, a goat symbolically imbued with the sins of the people, and sent out alive into the wilderness while another was sacrificed.
- goatsbeardAlternative spelling of goat's-beard: A woodland plant of the family Rosaceae, Aruncus dioicus.
- goatsbeardsplural of goatsbeard: A woodland plant of the family Rosaceae, Aruncus dioicus.
- goatshitAlternative spelling of goat shit: Something of no value; nothing.
- GoatstonesA Bronze-Age stone circle near Ravensheugh Crags in Northumberland, England.
- ManygoatsA surname from Navajo.
- nannygoatsplural of nannygoat: A female goat.
- shegoatsplural of shegoat: A female goat.