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🧔 With a small beard 🐐 Like a goat
goaty

goaty

7.2
Having a small pointed beard under the chin
  • adjective
  • /ˈɡoʊti/
translation icon : con barba de chivo
  • His goaty beard makes him look quite stylish.

Examples

  • Oh, he's... very goaty, isn't he?

    Click, Clack, Moo: Christmas at the Farm (2017)

  • He was garrulous, gay, and quite goaty.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • The man's goaty facial hair gave him a unique appearance.

  • She admired the actor's goaty look in the movie.

Synonyms

goateed
vsgoaty
1 6.6

A person with a small pointed beard on the chin like a goat

is the adjective formed with a -y ending serving as an alternate spelling

Surface Forms

goaty positive

Morphology

goaty = goat (transparent) = goat + y

The suffix '-y' is commonly used to form adjectives meaning 'having the qualities of' or 'resembling', making the meaning clear.

Etymology

The word goaty comes from the word goat plus the ending -y, which means 'like'. Think of a goat's small chin beard, like a goatee, so goaty can mean 'having a small, pointed beard'.