goat god

noun

1. a deity with the legs and feet of a goat, as Pan or a satyr.

Word History and Origins

Origin of goat god¹

First recorded in 1875–80

Example Sentences

We paused in a five-sided room, home of the Academy of Unseen Arts, which has paintings borrowed from the horror master Clive Barker lining the walls and a statue of the goat god Baphomet in the center.

From New York Times

Yet while inverting some earlier writing about Picasso -- hagiography of the goat god, by members of his claque -- Huffington produces something just as hokey.

From Time Magazine Archive

There are mythological scenes, infused with wry humor: the painting of Pan and Hermaphroditus, from the House of the Dioscuri, is perhaps the best-known of them, showing the randy goat god recoiling from his mistaken pass at a hermaphrodite.

From Time Magazine Archive

Said the Jackal to the Goat, "God bless you, Gaffer Goat, you'll be the first food that has passed my lips this many a day."

From Project Gutenberg

Dear grandson," said the Goat, "God bless you too.

From Project Gutenberg