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.

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  • adjective Goaty, goatlike.

Etymologies

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goat +‎ -ish

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Examples

  • A sturdy and goatish original by know-nothing punks from the sticks.

    CfK Kilean Kennedy 2011

  • Italian prime-time TV is filled with vapid variety shows featuring improbably hot chicks cavorting with goatish older men.

    The Future Is Cheese 2009

  • Italian prime-time TV is filled with vapid variety shows featuring improbably hot chicks cavorting with goatish older men.

    The Future Is Cheese 2009

  • Where are Bukowski's trademark soliloquies of goatish self-glorification?

    Visiting a Land Beyond Fodor's Reach 2011

  • When he learned of Descartes's funeral, some morbid (or goatish) curiosity drew him, sore of hoof, to Ste.

    La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth 2010

  • 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.

    La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth 2010

  • You don't happen to be getting rid of any brown goatish/sheepish fake fur by chance, do you?

    Making Light: Open thread 136 2010

  • His thick lips dipped downward in a solemn arc, and in his goatish eyes woe replaced mischief.

    La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth 2010

  • "Thinking goatish thoughts, dreaming goatish dreams ..."

    "Thinking goatish thoughts, dreaming goatish dreams..." crk_blog_vault 2008

  • 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

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  • "'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