Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A female goat.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
nanny goat .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun female goat
Etymologies
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Examples
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The rest I left behind: basin, axe, machete, nanny-goat and the other tools for work.
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The best that had been found so far was a nanny-goat with her kid.
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One evening the old woman was astonished to find that her very best nanny-goat returned without a drop of milk.
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At length, in the afternoon, the old woman noticed this particular nanny-goat stealing off by herself away from the herd and she at once went after her.
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In the Böhmerwald she goes round the village in the form of a nanny-goat with horns, gives fruit to the good children, and threatens to rip open the belly of the naughty.
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Then there were three horses in the stable, and two cows, and hens and chickens, and a bearded nanny-goat, besides a little pink-eyed rabbit, who darted about the lawn, with a blue ribbon around his snowy neck.
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Scrub the wife every day, teach the nanny-goat how to lay,
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Just thin Dorsey's nanny-goat that died next year put her head through th 'dure.
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Salter's balance, the "New York Observer," the bow and arrows, a Nuremberg nanny-goat, Rose's watering-pot, and the magnetic fishes, which gravely circled round and round them slowly and made the petty zodiac of their petty world.
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[Page 72] there were any little girls like herself, and if they picked berries, and had such a dear old black nanny-goat as hers, that gave milk for her supper, and now had two little black kids, its babies.
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