Goatseとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From the name of a now defunct website which first published the image, namely goatse.cx, which used the top-level domain code .cx, reserved for Christmas Island, because an attempt by an English speaker to say the website's full name would result in a string of phonemes sounding like goat sex.

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈɡoʊt.si/

固有名詞

goatse

1. (Internet slang) A notorious shock image of a man displaying his unnaturally dilated anus.
   • 2008, The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More, Chris Anderson, page 182:

     I thought everyone knew about GOATSE, but I was wrong. […] And knowing about GOATSE appears to be one of its secret membership codes, which is what Anil was demonstrating when he cheekily wore the word on his T-shirt […]

   • 2010, Porn.com: Making Sense of Online Pornography, Feona Attwood, page 136:

     Sometimes communities are founded specifically around the images — Facebook has a Goatse appreciation group at the time of writing […]

   • 2011, The Register (newspaper), "Scottish TV news pumps goatse link", John Oates:

     So they resorted to close-ups of LulzSec's Twitter feed. Specifically, 47 seconds in, the message: "For anyone that doesn't know what goatse is, check it out here, it's really eye-opening:"

   • 2011, Cole Stryker, Epic Win for Anonymous: How 4chan's Army Conquered the Web, page 100:

     For many, the experience of Internet shock sites began with goatse, a notoriously repulsive image that is considered the king of shock sites.

動詞

goatse (third-person singular simple present goatses, present participle goatseing, simple past and past participle goatsed)

1. (Internet slang) To trick (a person) into viewing the image.
2. (Internet slang, transitive) To exhibit one's anus to (a person) in a similar manner to the image.
   • 2001 June 21, Lianna Skywalker <liannaskywalker@hotmail.com>, “David Miscavige unveils his new Scientology promotion”, in alt.religion.scientology‎ (Usenet), via Google Groups, archived from the original on 20 October 2025:

     I love goatseing people... :)

参考

• trolling
• 4chan

アナグラム

• atgoes, goes at