old goat

[George Thompson]

It appears that none of the passages in the OED using "old goat" in a
figurative sense mean simply "an offensive old person", HDAS's sense
2c.  Here is a passage illustrating that sense, that antedates HDAS's
mid 2oth century citations by 110+ years.

        The lady informed [him] that . . . she was under the protection
of persons . . . who were determined to marry her to an old goat of 45
merely because he was rich. . . .
        N-Y E Post, February 25, 1830, p. 2, col. 2

HDAS: (1: a lecherous or lascivious man) *1675, *1688-89, *1717, *1773,
English; gap to 1929, U. S.  (2.c: an offensive old person) 1943, 1946,
1947, &c, all U. S.
OED: does not have Lighter's sense 2c

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George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.