| 释义 |
goatish, a.|ˈgəʊtɪʃ|
Also 6–7 gotish(e.
[f. goat + -ish.]
Characteristic of, or resembling, a goat in some feature or quality.
a1529Skelton Bouge of Court 237 He gased on me with his gotyshe berde. 1567Drant Horace's Ep. i. xviii. F iij, An other vseth brablarie for very gotish wol [L. de lana caprina]. 1633P. Fletcher Purple Isl. vii. lxxvi, The goatish Satyres dance around. 1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. 316 Carving Gods to worship, after the shapes of Pan, Priapus, and other gotish fancies. 1794Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xxvii. 418 The flower has a strong goatish smell. 1806W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. IV. 773 We have tasted the coarse⁓grained mutton of Lincolnshire..and the rank and goatish muskiness of the South-downs.
b. spec. Lascivious, lustful.
1598E. Guilpin Skial. (1878) 11 Iudge if this gull deserued his mistris fauour, Who thus his goatish humours did relate. 1605Shakes. Lear i. ii. 138. 1624 Heywood Gunaik. iv. 167 Shee did not only admit but allure and compell into her goatish embraces many of her souldiers. 1751Smollett Per. Pic. (1779) I. xxix. 266 A goatish, ram-faced rascal.
Hence ˈgoatishly adv., ˈgoatishness.
1835Booth Analyt. Dict. 104 He behaves Goatishly, or, is inclined to Goatishness. 1870Pall Mall G. 23 Aug. 11 There are times when the goat will preach against goatishness, the frail will testify against frailty. |