different between promiscuous vs goatish

English

Etymology

From Latin pr?miscuus (“mixed, not separated”), from pr? (“forth”) + misce? (“mix”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p???m?skju??s/

Adjective

promiscuous (comparative more promiscuous, superlative most promiscuous)

1. Made up of various disparate elements mixed together; of disorderly composition.

   Synonym: motley

   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 1, ll. 379-80

     Came singly where he stood on the bare strand, / While the promiscuous croud stood yet aloof.
2. Made without careful choice; indiscriminate.

   A sail caught by a promiscuous wind.

3. (derogatory) Indiscriminate in choice of sexual partners, or having many sexual partners.
4. (networking) The mode in which an NIC gathers all network traffic instead of getting only the traffic intended for it.

Derived terms

• promiscuity
• promiscuousness

Translations

See also

• Thesaurus:promiscuous man
• Thesaurus:promiscuous woman

Further reading

• promiscuous in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• promiscuous in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• promiscuous at OneLook Dictionary Search

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