| 词汇 | goatee |
| 词源 | goatee. The style of chin whiskers cut in the form of a tuft like that of a he-goat apparently became popular in mid-19th- century America, when the word goatee is first recorded. Goa- tee simply means “little goat” and the Americanism is first re- corded in 1842 as goaty. Billygoat beard or billygoat whiskers means the same and is first recorded in the mid-1880s. |
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