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- noun Alternative spelling of
nanny goat .
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Examples
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Why, the dues he pays would keep me in seventeen pairs of shoes if I was nannygoat enough to want 'em.
CHAPTER I 2010
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High on Ben Howth rhododendrons a nannygoat walking surefooted, dropping currants.
Ulysses 2003
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Why, the dues he pays would keep me in seventeen pairs of shoes if I was nannygoat enough to want 'em.
Chapter 1 1913
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_ (High on Ben Howth through rhododendrons a nannygoat passes, plumpuddered, buttytailed, dropping currants.) _
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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High on Ben Howth rhododendrons a nannygoat walking surefooted, dropping currants.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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(I forgot to tell you we had a goat.) 'Figure out if the nannygoat isn't quite right.'
Pratie Place 2008
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'Good night to you, little nannygoat,' I say, 'be healthy and strong,' and the quiet beast answered me with a 'meh' as she usually did, trying to say with her mute tongue: 'thank you very much.'
Pratie Place 2008
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