Satyr

//ˈsætə// noun

noun ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A sylvan deity or demigod, male companion of Pan or Dionysus, represented as part man and part goat, and characterized by riotous merriment and lasciviousness, sometimes pictured with a perpetual erection. Greek

    "Rough Satyrs danced; and Fauns, with cloven heel, / From the glad sound would not be absent long. male variation of nymphs"

  2. 2
    one of a class of woodland deities; attendant on Bacchus; identified with Roman fauns wordnet
  3. 3
    Synonym of faun. Roman
  4. 4
    man with strong sexual desires wordnet
  5. 5
    A lecherous man. broadly
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  1. 6
    Any of various butterflies of the nymphalid subfamily Satyrinae, having brown wings marked with eyelike spots; a meadow brown.
  2. 7
    The orangutan. obsolete

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aphrodisiomaniacbuggercailleaccasanovacoprophiliaccorn spirit

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"I sensed with discomfort that the two of them might ridicule me behind my back as a thoughtless, simple-minded satyr."

Etymology

From French satyre, from Latin satyrus, from Ancient Greek σάτυρος (sáturos).

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meadow brown

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