different between lecherous vs goatish

English

Etymology

From Middle English lecherous, licherous, from Old French *lecherous (attested in Old French lecherousement (“lecherously”)), from Old French lecherie, licherie (“gluttony, sensuality, lewdness, lechery”), from Old French lecher, lechier, lekier, lescher (“to lick, live in gluttony or sensuality”), from Old Frankish *lekk?n (“to lick”), from Proto-Germanic *likk?n? (“to lick”), from Proto-Indo-European *ley??- (“to lick”), equivalent to lecher +? -ous. More at lick.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?t????s/

Adjective

lecherous (comparative more lecherous, superlative most lecherous)

1. Given to excessive sexual activity and debauchery.

Derived terms

• lecherously
• lecherousness

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