Word of the Day for Sunday, February 26, 2012
hircine \HUR-sahyn\,
adjective:
1. of, pertaining to, or resembling a goat.
2. Having a goatish odor.
3. Lustful; libidinous.
The hircine stink in the air that he had sucked in while running was replaced by a cool dampness.
-- Jonathan Wilson, "A Palestine Affair"
Dad was thick-haired, bowlegged, bottom-heavy; he wore a tangly, hircine beard; a cigar depended from his lips at all times, the aromatic stub of a flute; panic was his state of nature.
-- Michael Griffith, "Spikes"
Hircine comes from the Latin word meaning of a goat, hircīnus.
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