hirco-, hirc- +

Any of the various domesticated breeds of the goat antelope: The Capra hircus descended from the wild bezoar and is raised for milk, meat, or wool. It is distinguished by its rollicking and energetic behavior.

1. In a literary sense, resembling a goat (not comparable): In the fairy tale June was reading, the wizard seemed to be of the lustful hircine type.
2. Descriptive of something having a goatish smell; goat-like: When Greg entered the kitchen, he perceived a hircine odor, perhaps from the cheese or milk his mother had put on the table!

1. Goatlike; of or pertaining to a goat: Little Ivy was so happy and full of life that she danced and frolicked around the room in a hircinous fashion.
2. A reference to a strong goatish smell: The milk that Nigel drank at the fair had a distinct hircinous reek to it.

A very strong and sharp odor: Because Jack was aware of the hircism of his body, he wanted to have a good antiperspirant spray especially for his armpits to get rid of the bad smell which was almost like that of a male goat!

The disgusting smell of armpits: Hircismus is based on the terrible uretic odor of male goats that apparently want to attract and impress female goats.

A mythological beast, half goat and half stag; goat-stag: Hircoceryus is the Latin word for "a billy goat" (hircus) attached to the other part of the word, "a stag" (cervus).

Concerning goats; goatish: hircine: Mrs. Smart knew they were approaching the farm because of the definite hircose odor that pervaded their bus.

1. The quality or characteristic of being hircose or goatish: Jack's hiroscity was showing again when he started jumping around in the garden and bleeting out like a goat!
2. Etymology: from Latin hircus, billy goat, therefore by extension from that legendary aspect of a goat's character: goatishness, lewdness.

1. A male goat: Among all the goats in the closed area there was a hircus or, in other words, a billy goat.
2. The strong odor of unwashed armpits: Tim's mother told him to go take a shower and get rid of his hircus, which is an extension of the "male goat" stink.
3. A figure of speech with reference to a filthy, reeking person: Mrs. Clean couldn't help but smell a hircus who was standing in front of her waiting to pay for his groceries.