New Artwork – Ian Rogers – a Trip of Goats

Another collective noun – today, a Trip of Goats.

Goats are pretty trippy, with their square eyes like an octopus. The etymology of “trip” in reference to a group of goats is more obscure, however:

1275–1325; Middle English;  apparently special use of trip  in the sense of a group moving together, hence gang, flock
– Random House Dictionary (2012)

When I was a kid we had a billy goat named Jesse that would chase me around the barnyard as our jenny goat, Juanita, would look an amusedly. I harbour no ill will against goats, though.