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Definition of Goatish
1. a. Characteristic of a goat; goatlike.
Definition of Goatish
1. Adjective. Goaty, goatlike. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Goatish
1. resembling a goat [adj] - See also: goat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Goatish
Literary usage of Goatish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Practical Dictionary of the English and German Languages by Felix Flügel, Johann Gottfried Flügel (1861)
"I. lustful after the be- goat, rutting; 2. goatish, (smelling) like a goat, ...
30<f tf(b, adj. goatish ; lewd. ..."
2. The Anatomy of melancholy v. 3 by Robert Burton (1875)
"him and his filthy beard, his goatish complexion, as Doris said of Polyphemus,l
fotus qui saniem, ..."
3. Erasmus in Praise of Folly: With Portrait, Life of Erasmus, and His Epistle by Desiderius Erasmus (1922)
"The goatish satyrs may make up a merry ball, and Pan, the blind harper, may put
up his bagpipes and sing bawdy catches, to which the gods, especially when ..."
4. The Age Reviewed: A Satire: in Two Parts by Robert Montgomery (1827)
"A goatish thing—he lives on ogling eyes, On scented handkerchiefs, and woman's
sighs! Its door-acquirements, and revolving limb, Its luscious prate, ..."
5. Catalogue of the African Plants by William Philip Hiern, Alfred Barton Rendle, Friedrich Martin Josef Welwitsch (1900)
"... the whole plant emitting a goatish smell; stem beset with whitish hairs ;
flowers large, white. In thickets near Boa Vista ; fr. March 1854. ..."
6. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"The quality of being goatish ; lustfulness ; salaciousness. Pray you, sir, observe
him ; He is a mountaineer, ..."
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