hircine

Meanings

Adjective

• Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of goats.
• Possessed of an odour reminiscent of goats.
• Libidinous; lustful.

Noun

• A fossil amorphous resin which, when burnt, gives off a pungent, hircinous aroma.

Related

Similar words

• hircic, hircose, caprine, goaten, goatish, goaty
• goaty, hircinous, hircose
• lascivious, libidinous, lustful, lusty
• hircite

Origin

• First attested in its present form in 1650–1660: From Middle English hircyne, from Latin hircīnus ("of a goat”, “goat-scented"); equivalent to hircus + -īnus. Cognates with French hircin. Compare caprine, haedine.