Crossword clues for goatish
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Goatish \Goat"ish\, a. Characteristic of a goat; goatlike.
Give your chaste body up to the embraces
Of goatish lust.
--Massinger.
-- Goat"ish*ly, adv. -- Goat"ish*ness, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s, from goat + -ish. Related: Goatishly; goatishness.
Wiktionary
a. goaty, goatlike.
Usage examples of "goatish".
To suppose that we of the left-handed fraternity, of the goatish rather than the sheepish brotherhood, had no purpose, that is unreal.
They have to be, for they are working with small, left-handed orders that are more goatish than sheepish, that are very near to the grotesque heart of matter.
He released her nipple from his snake mouth, dropped onto the bed, and became a large, goatish creature reeking of lust.
Bacchae, the unleashing of this force, the goatish caperings, well, any force as powerful as that is premoral.
He was dancing with a rickety liveliness, his goatish legs and shriveled body giving him the look of an emaciated satyr.
Their faces were goatish, surmounted by short, sharp-pointed horns, and they had long, yellow fangs.
And overlying them both was a faint goatish odor she knew only too well.
Distantly he heard the baa of the goat, and then a goatish reply in a higher pitch.
No mood-qualifiers or tone-deepenings, no goatish grunts or frisky yelps and giggles, no props, brandy, brothel gear, thongs, thumbscrews, third parties.
He wanted to throw Tammy Buckwalter across the bar and show her what he was capable of, use the goatish power in his loins to put her in thrall to him.
Besides, she loved an alto sax, a certain Papi, a mangy horror, he seemed to me, but she only had eyes for him, as he bleated lasciviously, because the saxophone, when it isn't Ornette Coleman's and it's part of a band-and played by the horrendous Papi-is a goatish, guttural instrument, with the voice of, say, a fashion model who's taken to drink and turning tricks.
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.
The party spilled out onto the balcony and even extended to the pool where at least a dozen clerks from Wilshire and Rampart and Hollywood stations swam bikini clad while goatish policemen swam naked until the apartment house manager threatened to call the police—the ones with clothes on.
A voice cursed, and a pair of men led a quartet of milk goats past on leashes, serenaded by goatish complaints.