Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small chin beard trimmed into a point.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A tuft of beard left on the chin after the rest has been shaved off; an imperial, especially one extending under the chin.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A part of a man's beard on the chin or lower lip which is allowed to grow, and trimmed so as to resemble the beard of a goat.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a small chin beard trimmed to a point; named for its resemblance to a goat's beard
Etymologies
- From goat + -ee (diminutive suffix). (Wiktionary)
- Alteration of goaty, from goat (from its resemblance to a goat's beard). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Anybody with a Todd Palin goatee is a facial offender.”
“Joe Cocker plays a pimp/hippie character whose goatee is painted on using the same technology used by Groucho Marx no less than 355 years ago.”
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“Kamaruddin, an amiable, balding man with a pious goatee, is no extremist.”
“I remember this was about nine months after Colin's first attempt to grow the stringy mess he called a goatee, and almost two years after Victor's lip began to show fuzz.”
“The goatee is shortened, now, and has an end; formerly it hadn't any, but ran off eastward and arrived nowhere.”
“The truck driven by the large man with the goatee was the one that had the diamonds.”
“No not the one with thecrustache and goatee, that is me.”
“The view from here is that the only person who should be seen out and about in a goatee is a goat.”
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“Hazel eyes, dark goatee, which is not pictured here.”
“As the fervor faded, I recall the goatee scratching over how to convert such a snub-nosed design into a production vehicle that could meet front crash requirements.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘goatee’.
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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Public List: A Facial Hair Stylesheet
Okay guys let me get a visual of you all. Let me know what you carry on your cheeks... anything goes. Slang, Metaphors, you name that thing.
Lets put Axioms about beards in there to.goatee, a man without mou..., five o'clock shadow, soulpatch, mutton chops, french fork, chin curtain, handlebar and chi..., a la souvarov, van dyke, hulihee, chinstrap and 19 more...
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Goats
goat, goats, goatee, goatsbeard, The Goat, or Who ..., scapegoat, Goats Head Soup, billy goat, nanny goat, he-goat, she-goat, Goat Island and 58 more...
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whiskers
words that describe facial hair,
some cute ones heremoustache, moustached, bewhiskered, bumfluff, burnsides, burnside, dundrearies, handlebar, imperial, kesh, beard, goatee and 82 more...
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gcherches's Words
serendipity, roadrunner, inner child, coagulant, esquire, vicissitude, idiot savant, mitigation, affirmation, affirmative, diatribe, affirmative action and 185 more...
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Spelling Bee list 2011
Abalone, ablution, absolution, aboriginally, abstemious, academician, acclamation, accommodation, acculturation, acetic, acetone, acme and 590 more...
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Amusing words
interesting words
bonce, furcate, tapioca, tillage, desalinate, garish, litmus, roadhog, azoic, haberdasher, imbroglio, polliwog and 802 more...
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Pogonology
mustache, beard, soul patch, goatee, vandyke, barbule, sideburns, cookie duster, flavor saver, mutton chops, handlebar, fu manchu and 9 more...
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I'm number one
words that i listed first. some are sort of made-up and a few belong in the "all things hair" section.
poptart, ipso facto, carelessness, uncommunicative, inkblot, exactitude, inevitably, woozie, goatee, lowlight, highlight, moisturize and 9 more...
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Old English Spelling Bee List
need to know these words!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
quell, bower, keen, alderman, cleanser, sallow, gristle, nestle, abide, gospel, nether, farthing and 84 more...
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