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English
Etymology
goat + -ish
Adjective
goatish (comparative more goatish, superlative most goatish)
- Goaty, goatlike.
c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :An admirable evasion of whore-master man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star!
1774, Edward Long, chapter XIII, in The History of Jamaica, volume II, London: Lowndes, page 328:Many are the men, of every rank, quality, and degree here, who would much rather riot in these goatish embraces, than share the pure and lawful bliss derived from matrimonial, mutual love.
1887, Benvenuto Cellini, translated by John Addington Symonds, Autobiography, New York: P.F. Collier & Son, published 1910, Book 2, Chapter XXI, p. 294:Though I call them satyrs, they showed nothing of the satyr except little horns and a goatish head; all the rest of their form was human.
1934, George Orwell, chapter 7, in Burmese Days:He went through a pantomime of examining a joint of meat, with goatish sniffs.
1985, Primo Levi, chapter 12, in William Weaver, transl., If Not Now, When?, New York: Summit, page 330:She was perfumed, and beside the wave of her perfume, Mendel perceived uneasily the heavy, goatish odor of Pavel's sweating body.
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