GOATEE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does goatee mean? 

• GOATEE (noun)
  The noun GOATEE has 1 sense:

1. a small chin beard trimmed to a point; named for its resemblance to a goat's beard

  Familiarity information: GOATEE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOATEE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small chin beard trimmed to a point; named for its resemblance to a goat's beard

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("goatee" is a kind of...):

beard; face fungus; whiskers (the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face)

Holonyms ("goatee" is a part of...):

chin; mentum (the protruding part of the lower jaw)

 Context examples 

But you, Holmes—you have changed very little—save for that horrible goatee.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A little later a rakish young workman, with a goatee beard and a swagger, lit his clay pipe at the lamp before descending into the street.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was a tall, gaunt man of sixty, with clear-cut features and a small goatee beard which gave him a general resemblance to the caricatures of Uncle Sam. A half-smoked, sodden cigar hung from the corner of his mouth, and as he sat down he struck a match and relit it.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)