Meanings
- uncountableThe meat of a goat, used as food; chevon.
The wonderful smells of vegetable goatmeat stew and baked bread filled the house.
1992, Lucy M. Dobkins, Daddy, There's a Hippo in the Grapes, Pelican, published 1992, →ISBN, page 592 more examples
Smith's gravity relaxed in a degree; and I, being crammed with goatmeat, felt finely.
1850, Lewis H. Garrard, Wah-To-Wah and the Taos Trail, H. W. Derby & Co, page 125They called him caballero for all his sixteen years and he sat with his hat pushed back and his boots crossed before him and ate beans and napolitos and a machaca made from dried goatmeat that was rank and black and stringy and dusted with dry red pepper for traveling.
1994, Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing, Vintage International, published 1995, →ISBN, page 102
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
Translations
Catalan carn de cabrit
- carn de cabritgoat eaten as meat
Chinese Mandarin 山羊肉
- 山羊肉 (shānyángròu)goat eaten as meat
Dutch geitenvlees
- geitenvleesgoat eaten as meat
Esperanto kapraĵo
- kapraĵogoat eaten as meat
Finnish vuohi, vuohenliha
- vuohigoat eaten as meat
- vuohenlihagoat eaten as meat
French viande de chèvre
- viande de chèvregoat eaten as meat
German Ziegenfleisch
- Ziegenfleischgoat eaten as meat
Indonesian daging kambing
- daging kambinggoat eaten as meat
Japanese 山羊肉
- 山羊肉 (yaginiku)goat eaten as meat
Korean 염소고기
- 염소고기 (yeomsogogi)goat eaten as meat
Polish kozina
- kozinagoat eaten as meat
Russian козля́тина
- козля́тина (kozljátina)goat eaten as meat
Thai เนื้อแพะ
- เนื้อแพะgoat eaten as meat
Cite this entry
goatmeat. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/goatmeat
“goatmeat.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/goatmeat. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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