billy goat

1. 1.

   male goat

   Synonymsbillyhe-goat

   Broadergoat

Questions about billy goat

What does billy goat mean?

billy goat means "male goat".

What is another word for billy goat?

Close synonyms include billy, he-goat. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is billy goat a common word?

billy goat is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.