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nanny goat en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (childish) A female goat.
    • And later, at an opportune moment, when Franny was pretending to sample a cup of chicken broth, Mrs. Glass had climbed up on the window seats with the agility of a mountain nanny goat and stripped all three of the sash windows of their heavy damask curtains. 1957, J. D. Salinger, “Zooey”, in Franny and Zooey, published 1961:
    • Poor old Robinson Crusoe! / Poor old Robinson Crusoe! / They made him a coat / Of an old nanny goat, / I wonder how they could do so! 1886, James Orchard Haliwell, The Nursery Rhymes of England, 5th edition, page 10:

Forms

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nanny goats Number=Plur lexicographic
nanny-goat alternative lexicographic
nannygoat alternative lexicographic

Antonyms

billy goat

Deriveds

get someone's nanny-goat

Synonyms

she-goat · nanny