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goat-sucker

goat-sucker is the alternative form of goatsucker.

Meaning of goatsucker

Noun

goatsucker (plural goatsuckers)

  1. Any bird in the nightjar family Caprimulgidae.
    • […] ah, that was the woodcock - and the goatsucker - yes, yes! it sounds strange to him, that hasn't heard him […]1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 286

Forms of goat-sucker

pluralgoat-suckers

Questions about goat-sucker

What is goat-sucker the alternative form of?
Goat-sucker is the alternative form of goatsucker.

Words near goat-sucker in the dictionary

  1. goat-antelopes
  2. goat-fish
  3. goat-fishes
  4. goat-rope
  5. goat-ropes
  6. goat-sucker
  7. goat-suckers
  8. goat-water
  9. goat-waters
  10. goatback
  11. goatbeard

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