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Goating vs Goading - What's the difference?

goating | goading |

As nouns the difference between goating and goading

is that goating is a scapegoating while goading is the act by which somebody is goaded.

As verbs the difference between goating and goading

is that goating is present participle of goat while goading is present participle of goad.

goating

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A scapegoating
  • An event at a fraternal organization, derived from scapegoating
  • * 1898 , The Sigma Chi Quarterly: The Official Organ of the Sigma Chi Fraternity , page 135
    • The field has been worked over very thoroughly and the spring " goatings " will not be very numerous.
  • * p.'' 1905 , ''Sigma Phi Epsilon Journal , page 345
    • With soirees, parties, germans and goatings , our time has passed away only too quickly
  • * 1912 , Caduceus of Kappa Sigma , page 420
    • Balls', teas, goatings and baseball games follow one another in rapid succession.
  • * 1999 , Susan Tyler Hitchcock, The University of Virginia: A Pictorial History , page 108
    • Phi Delta Phi, staged annual "goatings ," in which students caricatured professors mercilessly.

    Verb

    (head)

    • Anagrams

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    goading

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which somebody is goaded.
  • * 1853 , Orson Squire Fowler, Practical Phrenology
    • This fact refutes the doctrine that the goadings of a guilty conscience in this life, constitute the only punishment for sin