Definition of "goaty"

"Your face is curiously like Pan's," said Lou to him at dinner. ¶ It was true, in a commonplace sense. He had the tilted eyebrows, the twinkling goaty look, and the pointed ears of a goat-Pan.

1925, D. H. Lawrence, St Mawr‎

It’s high in butterfat and protein, and low in bacteria (which is what can give goat cheeses a goaty, barnyard taste).

2011 November 29, Sue Riedl, “Seriously, you need to try this goat cheese”, in The Globe and Mail