goat-likeadj.adv.

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 61 A meigre leane rake with a long berd goatlyke [L. barba].

1594 R. Carew tr. J. Huarte Exam. Mens Wits v. 68 It behoueth that in humane learning, there be some goat-like wits.

1652 C. Manuche Bastard iii. vi. 53 Was't not enough my daughter Defam'd my Family by her goat-like lust.

1793 J. Thelwall Peripatetic III. 66 Great Mammon Nimrod now..cries, With goat-like mouth, and idiot glaring eyes.

1862 M. Goodman Exper. Eng. Sister of Mercy 87 A goat-like descent from rock to rock.

1897 M. L. Hughes Mediterranean Fever iv. 156 A characteristic goat-like odour.

1957 A. G. Puttock Primulas iii. 30 If the leaves are rubbed it emits a goat-like smell.

2009 Day (New London, Connecticut) (Nexis) 13 Oct. Myriad unwashed dudes with goat-like beards, smelling of Cheetos and cigarettes.

1641 E. Browne Sacred Poems 23 After that (Goat-like) he skips and Joyes, In foolish vanities and Idle toyes.

1653 R. Saunders Physiognomie ii. 249 The forehead round, or Goat-like wrinkled.

1794 T. Holcroft Adventures Hugh Trevor I. xvi. 233 You are goats, and goat like you may dance yourselves to damnation!

1876 H. Melville Clarel I. ii. xvii. 218 Goat-like I scrambled where stones lag Poised on the brinks by thunder marred.

1958 J. Dickey in Poetry (Chicago) Aug. 287 One came with sceptre, one with cup, One goat-like back'd, and one with the head of a god.

2003 K. Green Is that a Moose in your Pocket? xix. 148 Goatlike, I place one cloven hoof before the other and slowly ascend through the clouds of grimness until I emerge at the summit.