Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small chin beard, especially one connected to a mustache or trimmed into a point.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A tuft of beard left on the chin after the rest has been shaved off; an imperial, especially one extending under the chin.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A part of a man's beard on the chin or lower lip which is allowed to grow, and trimmed so as to resemble the beard of a goat.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
beard trimmed to grow only at the center of thechin .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a small chin beard trimmed to a point; named for its resemblance to a goat's beard
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Anybody with a Todd Palin goatee is a facial offender.
Mike Gellman: Hair of the Mug Mike Gellman 2010
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Anybody with a Todd Palin goatee is a facial offender.
Mike Gellman: Hair of the Mug Mike Gellman 2010
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Joe Cocker plays a pimp/hippie character whose goatee is painted on using the same technology used by Groucho Marx no less than 355 years ago.
Across the Universe is the Best Comedy of 2007 | Best Week Ever 2007
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Kamaruddin, an amiable, balding man with a pious goatee, is no extremist.
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I remember this was about nine months after Colin's first attempt to grow the stringy mess he called a goatee, and almost two years after Victor's lip began to show fuzz.
Orphans of Chaos 2005
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The goatee is shortened, now, and has an end; formerly it hadn't any, but ran off eastward and arrived nowhere.
What Is Man? and Other Essays Mark Twain 1872
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No not the one with thecrustache and goatee, that is me.
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No not the one with thecrustache and goatee, that is me.
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The view from here is that the only person who should be seen out and about in a goatee is a goat.
England can still win the Ashes – they just need KP to have a shave Harry Pearson 2010
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The truck driven by the large man with the goatee was the one that had the diamonds.
The Fergus Incident 2010
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