Word nerd post: I love the dictionary.com word of the day selection:

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

I like the sound of the word, the visceral sense of meaning it gives, and that it describes resemblance in the realms of vision, smell, and sex. (Are goats known to be particularly libidinous or is that just fauns?)

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