Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Characteristic of or resembling a goat; hircine.
- Hence Wanton; lustful; salacious.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Characteristic of a goat; goatlike.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Goaty ,goatlike .
Etymologies
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Examples
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A sturdy and goatish original by know-nothing punks from the sticks.
CfK Kilean Kennedy 2011
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Italian prime-time TV is filled with vapid variety shows featuring improbably hot chicks cavorting with goatish older men.
The Future Is Cheese 2009
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Italian prime-time TV is filled with vapid variety shows featuring improbably hot chicks cavorting with goatish older men.
The Future Is Cheese 2009
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Where are Bukowski's trademark soliloquies of goatish self-glorification?
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When he learned of Descartes's funeral, some morbid (or goatish) curiosity drew him, sore of hoof, to Ste.
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There was a sort of hippity-hoppity bunny rabbit quality to Pan's erratic melody, but also a roaming goatish quality, stubborn, rough, and lean.
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You don't happen to be getting rid of any brown goatish/sheepish fake fur by chance, do you?
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His thick lips dipped downward in a solemn arc, and in his goatish eyes woe replaced mischief.
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"Thinking goatish thoughts, dreaming goatish dreams ..."
"Thinking goatish thoughts, dreaming goatish dreams..." crk_blog_vault 2008
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He had a goatish indifference to the feelings of others, and was quite unperturbed if one of his disclosures cost a friend or acquaintance his job.104
Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010
chained_bear commented on the word goatish
"'Yes, but it's cruel hard for a young foremast jack as has been longing for it watch after watch,' observed Robert Bonden, a goatish man, quite unlike his brother."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Reverse of the Medal, 16
February 24, 2008