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  • noun Alternative spelling of billy goat.

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Examples

  • His goatee is long and sprouting from his chin, billy-goat style.

    Adam Morrison thinks Washington could be "a great place" to play 2010

  • One doesn't have to billy-goat through canyons to add a little danger to the summer.

    The Hazards Of Life On the Edge 2009

  • Well, what are you gaping at now, like a billy-goat in

    Satyricon 2007

  • “There is no more profit from them than milk from a billy-goat.”

    The Schoolmistress and other stories 2004

  • And there was the billy-goat, there was always one old billy-goat at

    The Growth of the Soil 2003

  • About the same time, the voice begins to alter, getting harsher and more uneven, neither shrill as formerly nor deep as afterward, nor yet of any even tone, but like an instrument whose strings are frayed and out of tune; and it is called, by way of by-word, the bleat of the billy-goat.

    The History of Animals 2002

  • Nefer had not had an opportunity to bathe since leaving Gebel Nagara, and he smelt like a billy-goat.

    Warlock Smith, Wilbur 2001

  • The only sounds are the chug of the "billy-goat," cutting in now and then below decks, pumping out the bilges, and El -ato back on the fantail with his guitar, playing Buenos Aires tristes and milongas.

    Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

  • He wore a blanket like a toga below which there protruded the comic deformity of goats 'hoofs, while above it could be seen the sad comedy of a sheepskin jacket borrowed from Jumpy, its collar turned up, so that sheepish curls nestled only inches from pointy billy-goat horns.

    The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

  • Below the knee the hairiness came to a halt, and his legs narrowed into tough, bony, almost fleshless calves, terminating in a pair of shiny, cloven hoofs, such as one might find on any billy-goat.

    The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

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