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shegoat

shegoat is the alternative form of she-goat.

Meaning of she-goat

Noun

she-goat (plural she-goats)

  1. A female goat.
    • At the town of Mendes, in the principal temple, there was a living male goat, with which, if the statement of Herodotus is to be accepted, naked female worshippers actually had carnal intercourse. Male worshippers similarly had connexion with she-goats.1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day, London: T. Werner Laurie, page 29
    Synonyms:
    nanny goat, nanny, doe

Forms of shegoat

pluralshegoats

Questions about shegoat

What is shegoat the alternative form of?
Shegoat is the alternative form of she-goat.

Words near shegoat in the dictionary

  1. Sheftel
  2. Sheftels
  3. sheftsvo
  4. shegetz
  5. shegetzes
  6. shegoat
  7. shegoats
  8. Shehadeh
  9. Shehadehs
  10. shehakol
  11. Shehan

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