different between goatfish vs goatish

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

goat +? fish

Noun

goatfish (plural goatfishes or goatfish)

1. Any of many brightly coloured fishes, of the family Mullidae, having two barbels on the chin.

Hyponyms

• (genera within Mullidae): Mulloidichthys, Mullus, Parupeneus, Pseudupeneus, Upeneichthys, Upeneus

Translations

English

Etymology

goat +? -ish

Adjective

goatish (comparative more goatish, superlative most goatish)

1. Goaty, goatlike.
   • c. 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act I, Scene 2, [1]

     An admirable evasion of whore-master man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star!

   • 1774, Edward Long, The History of Jamaica, London: Lowndes, Volume II, Chapter XIII, p. 328, [2]

     Many are the men, of every rank, quality, and degree here, who would much rather riot in these goatish embraces, than share the pure and lawful bliss derived from matrimonial, mutual love.

   • 1887, Benvenuto Cellini, Autobiography, translated by John Addington Symonds, New York: P.F. Collier & Son, 1910, Book 2, Chapter XXI, p. 294, [3]

     Though I call them satyrs, they showed nothing of the satyr except little horns and a goatish head; all the rest of their form was human.

   • 1985, Primo Levi, If Not Now, When?, translated by William Weaver, New York: Summit, Chapter 12, p. 330,

     She was perfumed, and beside the wave of her perfume, Mendel perceived uneasily the heavy, goatish odor of Pavel's sweating body.

Derived terms

• goatishly
• goatishness

Translations

See also

• caprine
• goatlike
• goaty
• goaten
• haedine
• hircine