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Billy Goat

Definition: Billy Goat

Billy Goat

Noun

1. Male goat.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Billy Goat

Synonyms: billy (n), he-goat (n). (additional references)
Synonym by domain: he-goat (food & agriculture, biology & biotechnology).

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Synonyms within Context: Billy Goat

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Billy Goat

Specialty definitions using "billy goat": Goat. (references)

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Modern Usage: Billy Goat

DomainUsage

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Billy Goat

DomainTitle

Books

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Billy Goat

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Photo Album: Billy Goat

ThumbnailDescription & 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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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Billy Goat

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

billy goat

101

billy goat gruff picture three

3

the three billy goat gruff

67

billy goat lawn vacuum

3

billy goat gruff

38

billy goat restaurant

2

billy goat tavern

37

billy goat three

2

billy goat trail

11

billy goat gruff story three

2

billy goat picture

11

billy goat music

2

billy goat vacuum

9

billy goat sweeper

2

billy goat mower

9

billy goat mower near

2

billy goat mowers

7

billy goat gruff richard scarry three

2

billy goat industry

7

billy goat robbins royal

2

billy goat outback

6

billy goat used

2

3 billy goat gruff

5

billy goat robert service

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Billy Goat

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 

  

(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.

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Misspellings: Billy Goat

Misspellings

"Billy Goat" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: billygoat. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Billy Goat

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Derivations
11. Anagrams
12. Bibliography


  

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