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Definition: Billy Goat |
Billy GoatNoun1. Male goat. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Billy GoatSynonyms: billy (n), he-goat (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: he-goat (food & agriculture, biology & biotechnology). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Man | Drake, gander, dog, boar, stag, hart, buck, horse, entire horse, stallion; gibcat, tomcat; he goat, Billy goat; ram, tup; bull, bullock; capon, ox, gelding, steer, stot. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Billy Goat |
| Specialty definitions using "billy goat": Goat. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | To eat things that would make a billy goat puke (First Blood; writing credit: David Morrell; Michael Kozoll) Well if it isn't fat stinking billy goat Billy Boy in poison (A Clockwork Orange; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick) | |
Movie/TV Titles | A Romance of Billy Goat Hill (1916) | |
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Handgame of the Kiowa, Kiowa Apache, & Comanche Carnegie Roadrunners vs. Billy Goat Hill. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| Language | Translations for "billy goat"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | cjap. (various references) | |
Arabic | ذكر الماعز. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | козел (goat). (various references) | |
Chinese | 羝 (ram). (various references) | |
Czech | kozel (buck, he goat, tup). (various references) | |
Danish | gedebuk (buck, he-goat, male goat). (various references) | |
Dutch | bok (bench, easel, goat, he-goat, tressle, workbench), geitebok (he-goat). (various references) | |
Finnish | urosvuohi (buck, he-goat, male goat), pukki (billy-goat, buck, horse, trestle). (various references) | |
French | bouc. (various references) | |
German | Ziegenbock (he goat, he-goat), Geißbock (billygoat). (various references) | |
Greek | τράγος (buck, he-goat, male goat). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kecskebak (he goat), bakkecske (billygoat, he goat). (various references) | |
Italian | becco (beak, bill, billygoat, cuckold, lip, Neb, nozzle, rostrum, spout), caprone (billygoat, he goat), capro (billygoat, he goat). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | illybay oatgay.(various references) | |
Romanian | ied (fawn, goatling, kid, yeanling), ţap (buck, goat, he goat). (various references) | |
Romany | boozò. (various references) | |
Russian | козел (billy-goat, goat, sawbuck, sawhorse, sow, willy-goat). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | jarac (capricorn, horse). (various references) | |
Spanish | macho cabrio (buck, he-goat, male goat), macho cabrío (buck, goat). (various references) | |
Swedish | getabock (he goat), bock (buck, cross, duck, fault, goat, he-goat, howler, tick, trestle). (various references) | |
Turkish | teke (goat, he goat), erkek keçi (he goat), erkeç (he goat). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | козел (sow). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Billy Goat" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: billygoat. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-g-i-l-l-o-t-y" | |
-2 letters: galliot, tallboy. | |
-3 letters: aliyot, ballot, galiot, glibly, global, latigo, logily, otalgy. | |
-4 letters: aboil, allot, alloy, atoll, bally, bialy, bigly, bigot, bilgy, billy, biota, bloat, boyla, gaily, gally, gilly, glial, gloat, golly, laity, logia, loyal, tally, tolyl. | |
-5 letters: ably, agio, agly, alit, ally, alto, bail, bait, ball, bill, blat, blot, boat, bogy, boil, bola, boll. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-g-i-l-l-o-t-y" | |
+1 letter: obligately. | |
+3 letters: obligatorily. | |
+4 letters: coagulability. | |
+5 letters: biogenetically. | |
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