goat vs irony

goat

noun
  • A fool, loser, or object of ridicule. 

  • A Pontiac GTO car. 

  • The meat of the aforementioned animal. 

  • A blocker who is isolated behind the opposing team's blockers, so as to slow down the pack. 

  • A mammal, Capra aegagrus hircus, and similar species of the genus Capra. 

  • A scapegoat. 

  • A person who is not easily understood by a speech recognition system; contrasted with sheep. 

  • A lecherous man. 

verb
  • To scapegoat. 

  • To isolate (an opposing blocker) behind one's own blockers, so as to slow down the pack. 

  • To allow goats to feed on. 

irony

noun
  • Socratic irony: ignorance feigned for the purpose of confounding or provoking an antagonist. 

  • Contradiction between circumstances and expectations; condition contrary to what might be expected. 

  • Dramatic irony: a theatrical effect in which the meaning of a situation, or some incongruity in the plot, is understood by the audience, but not by the characters in the play. 

  • The quality of a statement that, when taken in context, may actually mean something different from, or the opposite of, what is written literally; the use of words expressing something other than their literal intention, often in a humorous context. 

  • An ironic statement. 

adj
  • Of or pertaining to the metal iron. 

  • The food had an irony taste to it. 

How often have the words goat and irony occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )