Goat-sucker, gote'-suk-ker, s

Nuttall's Standard Dictionary of the English Language · 1890 · p. 89

agenus of birds, so called Goiter, Goiter, as erroneously supposed to suck goats. See Capri- Goitre, vulgus. Gob, gob, s. a little; a mouthful; goaf. Goitred,