| 单词 | goat-foot |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgoat-foot goat-foot adj. and n. (a) adj. (of a satyr, faun, etc.) having the feet of a goat; goat-footed; (b) n. a satyr or faun; the god Pan (now rare). [Compare ancient Greek αἰγίπους (adjective) and αἰγιπόδης (noun). Compare earlier goat-footed adj. at Compounds 1d and goat-feet n. and adj.] ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [noun] > faun faunc1374 goat-foot1622 fauness1890 the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [noun] > Pan Pana1393 goat-foot1622 goat god1708 1622 J. Taylor Water-cormorant sig. F A Nimph, a fawne, or goatefoot Satyre. 1768 H. Downman Land of Muses 16 The goat-foot Pan playing a merry fit. 1819 L. Hunt Poet. Wks. II. 37 A troop of goat-foot shapes came trampling after. 1898 G. Meredith Odes French Hist. 6 To veil an evil leer, And bid a goatfoot trip it like a fay. 1906 Daily Chron. 13 Aug. 4/4 It was the hour of Pan. I could almost think I saw the goat-foot playing his pipes by the brook. 1912 R. Brooke in Basileon June 3 To glimpse a Naiad's reedy head, Or hear the Goat-foot piping low. 1925 E. Sitwell Troy Park 9 The goat-foot satyr waves. 1991 D. Ashcroft-Nowicki Tree of Ecstasy iii. i. 93 Pan is the goat-foot God of foothills, forests and woodland plains. < as lemmas |
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