goatishadj.

?1499 J. Skelton Bowge of Courte (de Worde) sig. Avi^v He gased on me with his gotyshe berde.

1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Pistles in tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. Fiij^v An other vseth brablarie, For very gotish wol [L. rixatur de lana..caprina].

1570 B. Googe tr. T. Kirchmeyer Popish Kingdome i. f. 5 His Gotish bearde long hanging downe.

1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island vii. lxxvi. 103 The goatish Satyres dance around.

1674 Coma Berenices 40 We who the sheep of Christ profess, Shall Goatish looks defile our dress?

1762 Gisbal 11 Amram, whose Pores emitted a goatish Odour.

1785 T. Martyn in tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxvii. 420 The flower has a strong goatish smell.

1806 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 4 773 We have tasted the coarse-grained mutton of Lincolnshire..and the rank and goatish muskiness of the South-downs.

1874 Examiner 2 May 458/2 Pan, with the soul of a God, cursed by the ruling powers of the world with a goatish shape.

1916 J. Joyce Portrait of Artist iii. 158 Goatish creatures with human faces, horny browed, lightly bearded and grey as indiarubber.

2001 M. Pollan Bot. of Desire (2002) i. 36 An etching..depicted Chapman as a sinewy, barefoot figure with a goatish beard.

?1552 W. Baldwin tr. ‘P. Esquillus’ Wonderfull Newes sig. B.iii^v This Goatishe olde manne [L. senex hircosus] prouoked to Aduoutrie a certayne chosen Damoysell, a niece of his.

1598 E. Guilpin Skialetheia sig. A7 Iudge if this gull deserued his mistris fauour, Who thus his goatish humours did relate.

1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear ii. 122 An admirable euasion of whoremaster man, to lay his gotish disposition to the charge of Starres. View more context for this quotation

1624 T. Heywood Γυναικεῖον iv. 167 Shee did not only admit but allure and compell into her goatish embraces many of her souldiers.

1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle I. xxxii. 247 A goatish ram-fac'd rascal!

1775 London Mag. Aug. 423/1 Sophy is closely watched by her guardian the Dutchman, who is violently in love with her fortune, and professes a goatish inclination for her person, altho' he is married.

1840 Satirist 12 July 218/2 In all probability she had already attracted the goatish desires of Ernest.

1954 W. Lewis Self Condemned i. v. 48 But he was goatish, he knew that: and all Hester was—was the Sandwich woman of his Achilles' heel.

2002 M. Bell Shakespeare's Tragic Skepticism ii. 112 It was enough that Othello's goatish lust could be imputed, despite his confession that his sexual urges have slackened with age.

1594 J. Lyly Mother Bombie ii. ii. sig. C4 Now Goatishly to whore.

1658 Crafty Whore 10 They are Saints in the Church, Angels in the streets, Syrens in the windows, but are Goatishly wanton in their Houses.

1717 E. Ward Brit. Wonders 4 The Leacher, tho's he cold, we find Is always Goatishly inclin'd.

1835 D. Booth Analyt. Dict. Eng. Lang. 104 He behaves Goatishly, or, is inclined to Goatishness.

1916 Pearson's Mag. Jan. 51/2 Beyond a victorious cheer or so, in which the voice of Billy Long rises goatishly, they say nothing to him.

2013 J. Cartwright Lion Heart v. 42 It's a short walk, sometimes a libidinous scamper, from the bar, our feet clacking goatishly on the slabs.

1598 Riddles of Heraclitus & Democritus sig. C4 That oft, is after goatishnesse so gone, That there is no beast, beastlier than hee.

a1670 J. Hacket Scrinia Reserata (1693) ii. 190 They that are at the right Hand [sc. before the Judgment of God] must be pure Sheep, harmless, gentle, without any Goatishness in them.

1704 Phosphorus 24 Goatishness, which first began the Fashion, By a Lay-Sister's held for Revelation.

1826 London Mag. July 354 He refuses to join in our sports, and would persuade us there is no sin or goatishness in him.

1870 Pall Mall Gaz. 23 Aug. 11 There are times when the goat will preach against goatishness, the frail will testify against frailty.

1978 J. Lecompte Pueblo, Hardscrabble, Greenhorn vi. 58 In motion they lose their goatishness and float over the prairie as lightly as a puff of wind, jumping obstacles in great airy leaps.

2012 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 21 Sept. c10 A banker and apparent philanderer whose goatishness is elided here.