goatee

English

Man with goatee.

Etymology

From goat +‎ -ee (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɡəʊˈtiː/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌɡoʊˈtiː/
• Rhymes: -iː

Noun

goatee (plural goatees)

1. A beard trimmed to grow only at the center of the chin.

   Coordinate term: soul patch

   • 1845 February, “Editors' Table”, in The Williams Monthly Miscellany, volume 1, number 8, page 367:

     One person sports a goatee, the hair refusing to grow on the sides of his physiognomy; the chin of another is as smooth as a baby's cheek,—he contents himself with a modest moustache and a faint attempt at an imperial; while a few of the upper classes rejoice in all the varieties.

   • 1906 January–October, Joseph Conrad, chapter III, in The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale, London: Methuen & Co., […], published 1907, OCLC 270548466; The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Collection of British Authors; 3995), copyright edition, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1907, OCLC 1107573959, page 44:

     The terrorist, as he called himself, was old and bald, with a narrow, snow-white wisp of a goatee hanging limply from his chin.

Derived terms

• goateed

Translations

beard at the center of the chin

• Arabic: عُثْنُون‎ m (ʿuṯnūn)
• Bulgarian: козя брадичка f (kozja bradička)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 山羊鬍子, 山羊胡子 (shānyáng húzi)

• Czech: bradka f
• Danish: fipskæg (da) n
• Dutch: kinbaardje n, sik (nl) m
• Esperanto: kaprobarbo
• Estonian: kitsehabe
• Finnish: pukinparta (fi)
• French: barbiche (fr) f, bouc (fr) m
• Georgian: თხაწვერა (txac̣vera)
• German: Spitzbart (de) m, Kinnbart (de) m, Ziegenbart (de) m, Goatee m
• Hebrew: זְקַן הַתַּיִשׁ‎ m
• Hungarian: kecskeszakáll (hu)
• Icelandic: hökutoppur (is) m
• Ido: mentonobarbo (io)
• Irish: meigeall m, cab féasóige m, caibín féasóige m
• Italian: pizzo (it) m, pizzetto m
• Japanese: 山羊髭 (やぎひげ, yagihige)

• Korean: 염소 수염 (yeomso suyeom)
• Latvian: kazbārdiņa f, āža bārdiņa f
• Macedonian: шилесто брадиче n (šilesto bradiče)
• Malay: janggut sejemput
• Maori: hurukauae
• Norman: barbiche f (Jersey)
• Norwegian: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: ریش بزی‎ (ris bozi)
• Polish: kozia bródka (pl) f
• Portuguese: cavanhaque (pt) m, cavaignac m
• Romanian: barbişon (ro)
• Russian: козли́ная боро́дка f (kozlínaja boródka), ко́зья боро́дка f (kózʹja boródka), эспаньо́лка (ru) f (espanʹólka)
• Slovak: briadka f
• Slovene: kózja brádica f
• Spanish: perilla (es) f, piocha (es) f (Mexico), barba de chivo f, chiva (es) f, chivera (es) f
• Swedish: bockskägg n
• Thai: เคราแพะ
• Tibetan: ཨོག་ཚོམ (og tshom), ཨོག་ཤོལ (og shol)
• Turkish: keçi sakalı
• Yiddish: ציגן־בערדל‎ n (tsign-berdl)

Further reading

• goatee on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• goatees on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons