Goat vs Billy - What's the difference?
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A mammal, Capra aegagrus hircus'', and similar species of the genus ''Capra .
(slang) A lecherous man.
* etymology: from the slang term "horny as a goat"
(informal) A scapegoat.
* 2008 , "Tigers already miss Jones", in Royal Oak Daily Tribune (Michigan), Aug 6, 2008
* 1997 , "", Game 7, bottom 11th inning, TV broadcast on NBC Sports, early morning October 27, 1997; words by Bob Costas
Nickname for the Pontiac GTO
To allow goats to feed on.
* 1918 , Agricultural Experiment Station, Director's Biennial Report - Page 51
To scapegoat.
* 2001 , "A worthy Rusch to judgment", in USA Today , July 15, 2001
A billy club.
A billy goat.
* 1970 August, Valerius Geist, Mountain Goat Mysteries'', '' ,
* 1992 , Dwight R. Schuh, Mountain Goat (Oreamnos americanus)'', in ''Bowhunter's Encyclopedia ,
* 2002 , Douglas H. Chadwick, A Beast the Color of Winter: The Mountain Goat Observed ,
# A male goat; a ram.
(Geordie) A good friend.
(Australia, New Zealand) A tin used by bushmen to boil tea, a billypot.
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(UK, Australia) A billycan.
* 1889 , Ernest Giles, Australia Twice Traversed , 2004,
* 2011 , Rod Moss, The Hard Light of Day: An Artist's Story of Friendships in Arrernte Country ,
(slang) A condom (From the E-Rotic song "Willy, Use a Billy...Boy")
A slubbing or roving machine.
* 1840 , The Citizen ,
* 1967 , Jennifer Tann, Gloucestershire Woollen Mills: Industrial Archaeology ,
As a noun goat
is (uk|politics|informal) a member of the "government of all the talents" proposed by british prime minister (gordon brown).As a proper noun billy is
a diminutive of the male given name william.goat
English
Noun
(wikipedia goat) (en noun)- Fernando Rodney, the goat in Sunday's 10th inning loss to Tampa Bay, threw three nearly perfect innings in relief on Tuesday after being demoted from the closer role.
- Tony Fernández, who has worn hero's laurels throughout the postseason including earlier in this seventh game of the World Series, now cruel as it may seem, perhaps being fitted for goat horns.
Synonyms
* See alsoHolonyms
* (group of goats) tribe, herdDerived terms
* act the goat * billygoat * get one's goat * goat's breath * goatfish * goatee * goatherd * goatish * goatpox * mountain goat * scapegoatSee also
* chevon * ewe * herd * hircine * kid * ram * tribe *Verb
(en verb)- Rape and clover has yielded 283 sheep days of pasture, practically dry weather For the coming year it is planned to goat this area continuously
- John Rocker, meanwhile, was spared from getting goated because he didn't blow a save
Anagrams
* toga 1000 English basic words ----billy
English
Noun
(billies)page 62,
- Then, during three days, I was amazed to see nannies with kids attack and chase off large billies .
page 276,
- In fact, distinguishing between billies and nannies isn't necessarily a sure thing.
page 159,
- It isn't just billies that enter the bleak season with rut-depleted fat reserves, but rams, bull elk, buck deer, and others.
- Let's get the billy and cook some beans.
page 239,
- We had been absent from civilisation, so long, that our tin billies', the only boiling utensils we had, got completely worn or burnt out at the bottoms, and as the boilings for glue and oil must still go on, what were we to do with ' billies with no bottoms?
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- Over the fence, in a shallow gully 100 metres away, this guy and his wife were living on the dirt in the open weather with just a blanket, billies , a dog and a transistor radio. They didn't even have water.
page 347,
- at the time there existed in Dublin and its immediate neighbourhood, “forty-five manufacturers, having twenty-two billies , giving employment to 2885 work people, on whom depended for support 7386 individuals, manufacturing 29,312 pieces of cloth, of various qualities, valued at £336,380.”
page 126,
- On the second floor there were 2 billies , 1 carding and 1 scribbling machine.
Derived terms
* billycan, billy-can * billy cart * Silly Billy, silly billyReferences
* *Sceilig: Information Pack for Troops(p. 4) *
The Patrol goes to Camp(pp. 9, 11).
