goating

• Rhymes: -əʊtɪŋ

goating (countable and uncountable, plural goatings)

1. A scapegoating.
2. An event at a fraternal organization, involving scapegoating.
   • 1898, The Sigma Chi Quarterly: The Official Organ of the Sigma Chi Fraternity, page 135:

     The field has been worked over very thoroughly and the spring " goatings " will not be very numerous.

   • p. 1905, Sigma Phi Epsilon Journal, page 345

     With soirees, parties, germans and goatings, our time has passed away only too quickly

   • 1912, Caduceus of Kappa Sigma, page 420:

     Balls', teas, goatings and baseball games follow one another in rapid succession.

   • 1999, Susan Tyler Hitchcock, The University of Virginia: A Pictorial History, page 108:

     Phi Delta Phi, staged annual "goatings," in which students caricatured professors mercilessly.

goating

1. present participle and gerund of goat

• Giganto, atgoing, giganto, giganto-, gigaton, going at