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Word entry · 6 letters

goatee

Best crossword clue

"Chin beard"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /ɡəʊˈtiː/Part of speech nounSorted aeegotStarts with GEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

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

Word origin

From goat + -ee (diminutive suffix), referring to the tuft of hair on the chin of many domestic goats.

Used in a sentence

  • The terrorist, as he called himself, was old and bald, with a narrow, snow-white wisp of a goatee hanging limply from his chin.
  • "Yes, sir, behind you. He is a man of middle size, rather inclined to shortness. He is old, over sixty, with white hair, curved nose and a white, small beard of the variety that is called goatee."

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