ectually, there were various gothic tribe in ancient germany- such as the ostrogoths. and the vandals As vandal was orgin or teh word vandalism, gothic can to mean barbaric or ugly. The traditional term appilied to architecture supposedly came as when a writter who decribed a cathedral with flying butresses, and gargolyes water spouts wrote "its so ugly that its gothic." The name stuck meaning "ugly." Hold on theres a piont to this So goth can mean 1) ancient germanic tribe 2) any barbarian 3) ugly 4) 11th century architecture 5) poeple who dress in black and has a attitude SOOOO technically any one of "naked vicky in temple" can be called goth espicially if she is in a medieval cathedral, and she's dressed in black valkurie gear. and she's dead and real ugly ;)