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Definition: Goatee |
GoateeNoun1. A small chin beard trimmed into a point; named for its resemblance to a goat's beard. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "goatee" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1865. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Roughness | Brush, hair, beard, shag, mane, whisker, moustache, imperial, tress, lock, curl, ringlet; fimbriae, pili, cilia, villi; lovelock; beaucatcher; curl paper; goatee; papillote, scalp lock. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Goatee |
| Specialty definitions using "goatee": BILL ♦ SAM. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I'm growing a goatee. (Clueless; writing credit: Amy Heckerling.) You know, with that goatee, you kinda look like Satan (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen) Wouldn't that have been embarrasing if I had worn my goatee tonight (Kicking and Screaming; writing credit: Noah Baumbach; Oliver Berkman) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Hom! He gave a loud cough of laughter, smiled broadly and tugged twice at the strawcoloured goatee which hung from his blunt chin |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Goatee" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Goatee" is used about 21 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 21 | 76,261 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "goatee": goatee-herd, goatee-toting. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "goatee"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | mjekërz me majucë. (various references) | |
Arabic | لحية التيس, العثنون لحية. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | козя брадичка. (various references) | |
Czech | kozí bradka. (various references) | |
Farsi | ریش بزی (Tuft). (various references) | |
French | bouc (billy goat), barbiche. (various references) | |
German | Spitzbart (pointed beard). (various references) | |
Greek | γενάκι, υπογένειο (imperial beard). (various references) | |
Hebrew | זקן התיש. (various references) | |
Hungarian | kecskeszakállas ember, kecskeszakáll. (various references) | |
Italian | pizzo (lace), barba a pizzo. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 天神髭 (drooping moustache), 山羊髭 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | やぎひげ, てんしんひげ (drooping moustache). (various references) | |
Manx | faasaag ghoair. (various references) | |
Norwegian | fippskjegg. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oateegay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pera no queixo, cavanhaque, barbinha de bode, barbicha. (various references) | |
Romanian | cioc (bang, beak, bill, Buss, click-clack, click-click, knock, mouth, nib, nose, nozzle, pecker, rostrum, sip, snout, spout, tuft), barbişon (imperial), bãrbiţã (bib), ţãcãlie (beard, imperial). (various references) | |
Russian | эспаньолка (imperial), козлиная бородка. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kozja bradica. (various references) | |
Spanish | perilla (knob), pera (pear), barbas de chivo, barbas chivas. (various references) | |
Swedish | pipskägg (imperial). (various references) | |
Turkish | keçi sakalı (goat's beard, imperial). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | козлина борідка. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | chòm râu dê. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "goatee": goateed, goatees. (additional references) | |
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"Goatee" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: coatee, gaete, galtee, Gateley, gaty, gloaty, goace, goare, Goate, goated, goateer, Goater, goates, goathe, goati, goatie, Goatley, goaty, Gobaith, goetee, Goettel, Goetzee, Gogarty, gohtee, gootie, Gortree, goste, gostee, gotay, gotee, Goteyen, goty, goute, Goyave, groaty, guantee, guate, guater, oatee. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-o-t" | |
-1 letter: togae. | |
-2 letters: agee, gate, geta, goat, ogee, toea, toga. | |
-3 letters: age, ago, ate, eat, ego, eta, gae, gat, gee, get, goa, got, oat, tae, tag, tao, tea, tee, teg, toe, tog. | |
-4 letters: ae, ag, at, et, go, oe, ta, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-o-t" | |
+1 letter: goateed, goatees. | |
+2 letters: derogate, elongate, geotaxes, helotage, oogamete. | |
+3 letters: delegator, derogated, derogates, elongated, elongates, entourage, flageolet, forestage, fosterage, gantelope, gasometer, gatehouse, generator, helotages, isogamete, mortgagee, negotiate, oogametes, oxygenate, porterage, reportage, teratogen, wagonette. | |
+4 letters: allegretto, altogether, anecdotage, autogenies, baronetage, categories, categorise, categorize, collegiate, congregate, delegation, delegators, denegation, dermatogen, derogative, entourages, ergotamine, excogitate, flageolets, foregather, forestages, fosterages, gametocyte, gantelopes, gasometers, gatehouses, generation, generators, geodetical, geothermal, goaltender, gravestone, halogenate, hatemonger, heterogamy, homogenate, isogametes, mangosteen, mortgagees, negotiable, negotiated, negotiates, outgeneral, overeating, oxygenated, oxygenates, porterages, prestorage, relegation, remortgage, reportages, retrograde, stereogram, teratogens, travelogue, vegetation, wagonettes. | |
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