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 Go-along, subs. (thieves').—A fool; a flat (q.v.). For synonyms, see Buffle and Cabbage Head.

1851-61. H. Mayhew, Lond. Lab. and Lond. Poor, vol. I., p. 460. In four days my adviser left me; he had no more use for me. I was a flat. He had me for a go-along, to cry his things for him.

1853. Household Words, No. 183. s.v. 'Slang.'

Goat, subs. (old).—A lecher; a molrower (q.v.).

1599. Shakspeare, Henry V., iv., 4. Thou damn'd and luxurious mountain goat.

1690. B. E., Dict. of the Cant. Crew, s.v. Goat, a Lecher, a very lascivious person.

1717. Cibber, Nonjuror, i., 1. At the tea-table I have seen the impudent goat most lusciously sip off her leavings.

1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.

Verb (common).—1. To thrash. For synonyms, see Tan.

1864. Derby Day, p. 70. You won't goat me? Not this journey.

To play the goat. verb. phr. (common).—1. To play the fool; to monkey (q.v.). Fr., faire l'oiseau.

2. (venery).—To lead a fast life; to be given to molrowing (q.v.).

To ride the goat, verb. phr. (common).—To be initiated into a secret society. [From the vulgar error that a live goat, for candidates to ride, is one of the standing properties of a Masonic lodge.]

Goatee, subs. (colloquial).—A tufted beard on the point of a shaven chin. [In imitation of the tuft of hair on a goat's chin.]

English Synonyms (for a beard generally).—Charley; imperial; Newgate (or sweep's) frill, or fringe.

French Synonyms.—Une marmouse (thieves'); un impériale (colloquial: formerly une royale); un bouc or une bouquine (= a goatee); bacchantes (thieves': the beard, but more especially the whiskers, from bâche = awning).

German Synonym.—Soken (from the Hebrew; also = old man).

Italian Synonyms.—Bosco di berlo (the forest on the face); settosa (= full of hair); spinola (= thorny).

Spanish Synonym.—Bosque (= wood).

1869. Orchestra, 18 June. Working carpenters with a straggling goatee on the chin, and a mass of unkempt hair on the head.

Goater, subs. (American thieves').—Dress. For synonyms, see Togs.

Goat-house, subs. (old).—A brothel. [From Goat, subs., sense 1.] For synonyms, see Nanny-shop.

Goatish, adj. (old, now recognised).—Lecherous. [As vieing with a goat in lust.] Hence Goatishly, adv., and Goatishness, subs.

1622. Massinger and Dekker, Virgin Martyr, iii., 1. Give your chaste body up to the embraces of goatish lust.

1605. Shakspeare, King Lear, i. 2. An admirable evasion of whoremaster-*man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star.