Definitions

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  • adjective Like a goat; goatish.

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  • adjective Resembling a goat or some aspect of one.

Etymologies

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goat +‎ -like

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Examples

  • "They also call my name, Chen, in a goatlike voice, sometimes for no reason," he wrote to his parents in February.

    Soldiers Charged in Private's Death Sean Gardiner 2011

  • The face that looked up at me was gray and goatlike.

    Crossed J.F. Lewis 2011

  • The face that looked up at me was gray and goatlike.

    Crossed J.F. Lewis 2011

  • And even then, with his own mount stumbling and nearly pitching him headforemost at each lurch, he was forced to admire the mare's goatlike agility, for she descended into the gorge in running leaps, never setting a wrong foot.

    In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010

  • In a moment, the bushes parted and into the pasture pranced an unbelievable creature, all woolly and goatlike from its waist down to its hooves; human and masculine above.

    La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth 2010

  • Thus chained, it can only hold its head out straight, the better for us to admire its goatlike face and long corkscrew horn.

    Zombies vs. Unicorns Justine Larbalestier 2010

  • Xavius had been reborn as a satyr—the first of the goatlike monsters now so long the enemies of the night elves—and his malevolence had only grown with his new, hideous aspect.

    WORLD OF WARCRAFT STORMRAGE Richard A. Knaak 2010

  • When I approached, the goats were as goatlike as I expected, watching me with those drowsy, stupid eyes and slowly chewing whatever nameless greenery they had grazed in the clearing.

    Virginity Sydney Kilgore 2010

  • Xavius had been reborn as a satyr—the first of the goatlike monsters now so long the enemies of the night elves—and his malevolence had only grown with his new, hideous aspect.

    WORLD OF WARCRAFT STORMRAGE Richard A. Knaak 2010

  • Xavius had been reborn as a satyr—the first of the goatlike monsters now so long the enemies of the night elves—and his malevolence had only grown with his new, hideous aspect.

    WORLD OF WARCRAFT STORMRAGE Richard A. Knaak 2010

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