Definitions
Etymologies
- goat + -ish (Wiktionary)
Examples
“A sturdy and goatish original by know-nothing punks from the sticks.”
“Where are Bukowski's trademark soliloquies of goatish self-glorification?”
The Wall Street Journal: Visiting a Land Beyond Fodor's Reach
“Italian prime-time TV is filled with vapid variety shows featuring improbably hot chicks cavorting with goatish older men.”
“You don't happen to be getting rid of any brown goatish/sheepish fake fur by chance, do you?”
“Thinking goatish thoughts, dreaming goatish dreams ...”
“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”
“When he learned of Descartes's funeral, some morbid (or goatish) curiosity drew him, sore of hoof, to Ste.”
“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.”
“His thick lips dipped downward in a solemn arc, and in his goatish eyes woe replaced mischief.”
“A small neat beard edged its jaw, adding to the goatish appearance.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘goatish’.
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phrontistery - g
from phrontistery.info
gabardine, gabbart, gabble, gabbro, gabelle, gabion, gablock, gad, gadarene, gadoid, gadroon, gadzookery and 439 more...
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135 Offensive Shakespearean Terms
135 Offensive Shakespearean Terms =)
artless, baggage, barnacle, bawdy, beef-witted, bladder, boil-brained, bootless, brazen, cankerblossom, churlish, churrish and 123 more...
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Infinite Jest
Words taken from Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
prorector, monograph, post-fourier, snuffle, rototremble, creatus, enfilade, subanimalistic, balletic, espadrilles, leonine, cirri and 1153 more...
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...:::bella:::...
originally started as an attempt to collect words I found visually and auditorially beautiful, as well as psychically evocative, this has become nothing more than a grab bag of word curiosities, a ...
bergamot, jambalaya, bee's knees, heliotrope, hosanna, gamboge, aureole, filial, madrigal, multilingual, sacrosanct, sojourn and 1072 more...
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Slings and Arrows: Shakespearean Insults
artless, baudy, beslubbering, bootless, churlish, cockered, clouted, craven, dankish, dissembling, droning, errant and 116 more...
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Animal Magnetism
Adjectives derived from animal names but used to describe people
dogged, foxy, bearish, bullish, pigheaded, birdbrained, catty, wolfish, bullheaded, horsy, weaselly, squirrelly and 39 more...
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chained_bear "'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 Feb 24, 2008