goatee

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  1. noun A small chin beard trimmed into a point.
  2. Word History
    When assessing American contributions to the English language and to fashion, let us not forget the goatee. Early comments on this style of beard appear first in American writings, making this word an Americanism. Although the style raises few eyebrows now, the early comments were not favorable: "One chap's . . . rigged out like a show monkey, with a little tag of hair hangin down under his chin jest like our old billy goat, that's a leetle too smart for this latitude, I think.” This 1842 description, found in William Tappan Thompson's Major Jones's Courtship, also reveals the etymology of the word. The first recorded occurrence of the word itself, found in Daniel Lee and Joseph H. Frost's Ten Years in Oregon (1844), also sounds disapproving: "A few individuals . . . leave what is called, by some of their politer neighbors, a 'goaty' under the chin.”

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  • With the exception of a pony tail, goatee, and an extra thirty pounds or so, most of which was centered around his gut, Joel had changed very little. —  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • He had a tiny goatee, which is a look that maybe one white guy in twenty can pull off. —  FSF,September2005
  • The man is described as a black male with a gray goatee, about 6 feet 1 inch tall, weighing about 180 pounds. —  The Roanoke Times: Home page
  • Crudup's scene-stealing goatee, and a moment that plays as a funny twist on a key scene from On last night's episode of The New Adventures of Old Christine, —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • Leftists caricatured the pastor as a goatee-wearing Jerry Falwell.
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  1. Alteration of goaty, from goat (from its resemblance to a goat's beard).

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  1. from goat + -ee; the thing being likened to the beard of a goat.
 

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