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Goat vs Haedine - What's the difference?

goat | haedine |

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 an adjective haedine is

(rare|humorous) resembling in form or exhibiting the behaviour typical of a kid (ie , a juvenile goat); compare caprine, hircine.

goat

English

Noun

(wikipedia goat) (en noun)
  • 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
    • 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.
  • * 1997 , "", Game 7, bottom 11th inning, TV broadcast on NBC Sports, early morning October 27, 1997; words by Bob Costas
    • 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.
  • Nickname for the Pontiac GTO

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Holonyms

    * (group of goats) tribe, herd

    Derived terms

    * act the goat * billygoat * get one's goat * goat's breath * goatfish * goatee * goatherd * goatish * goatpox * mountain goat * scapegoat

    See also

    * chevon * ewe * herd * hircine * kid * ram * tribe *

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To allow goats to feed on.
  • * 1918 , Agricultural Experiment Station, Director's Biennial Report - Page 51
    • 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
  • To scapegoat.
  • * 2001 , "A worthy Rusch to judgment", in USA Today , July 15, 2001
    • John Rocker, meanwhile, was spared from getting goated because he didn't blow a save

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    haedine

    English

    Adjective

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  • (rare, humorous) Resembling in form or exhibiting the behaviour typical of a kid (i.e. , a juvenile goat); compare caprine, hircine.
  • * 1914 : University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus), The Illio , volume 20, page 70
    • Then there was an old-clothes man of Hebraic origin?;?a fully-costumed darkey waiter, dispensing delicious liquors from a tray?;?countless clowns and placarded unfathomables?;?a poor, droning blind man?;?a midnight reveller with the essential lamp post?;?a valiant huntsman?;?an escaped convict, ? 27395?;?and?—?not least by any means?—?a goat.?It was a real goat, real enough to have balking and butting tendencies.?Ted Fritchey had him in charge, and underwent many a harrowing experience with his haedine protégé.?This goat was intended to be prophetic of a victory over Chicago on the morrow?—?a capture of Chicago’s goat.?Of the fulfillment of the prophecy, more hereafter.?It is enough to say that on this afternoon our minds were all overborne with anxiety, and our hearts were all tight with goatish desire.
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