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goating

goating noun: a scapegoating. Also the present participle and gerund of goat.

Noun

goating (countable and uncountable, plural goatings)

  1. A scapegoating.
  2. An event at a fraternal organization, involving scapegoating.
    • The field has been worked over very thoroughly and the spring " goatings " will not be very numerous.1898, The Sigma Chi Quarterly: The Official Organ of the Sigma Chi Fraternity, page 135
    • With soirees, parties, germans and goatings, our time has passed away only too quicklyp. 1905, Sigma Phi Epsilon Journal, page 345

Also used as

goating is also the present participle and gerund of goat.

Examples of goating in a sentence

  • Balls', teas, goatings and baseball games follow one another in rapid succession.1912, Caduceus of Kappa Sigma, page 420:
  • Phi Delta Phi, staged annual "goatings," in which students caricatured professors mercilessly.1999, Susan Tyler Hitchcock, The University of Virginia: A Pictorial History, page 108:

Forms of goating

pluralgoatings

Words that rhyme with goating

Questions about goating

What does goating mean?
Goating means a scapegoating.
How do you use goating in a sentence?
Balls', teas, goatings and baseball games follow one another in rapid succession.
What part of speech is goating?
Goating is a noun.
What is the plural of goating?
The plural of goating is goatings.

Words near goating in the dictionary

  1. goatie
  2. goatier
  3. goaties
  4. goatiest
  5. goatiness
  6. goating
  7. goatings
  8. goatish
  9. goatishly
  10. goatishness
  11. goatkeeper

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