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Definition of Nanny-goat
1. Noun. Female goat.
Definition of Nanny-goat
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of nanny goat) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nanny-goat
Literary usage of Nanny-goat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Contemporary French Novelists: And Other Tales from India by William Henry Denham Rouse, William Crooke, William Heath Robinson, René Doumic, Mary D. Frost (1922)
"The Tigress had two tiger- cubs ; and the family of the nanny-goat were four ...
But the Tigress was jealous of her friend the nanny-goat, because Nanny had ..."
2. The Boy Scouts' Year Book by Boy Scouts of America (1917)
"Well, nanny-goat came back with a different pair of pants, ... He was running it
back fine when Greasy appeared, and then nanny-goat stopped and said "Down. ..."
3. Keeping Up with William: In which the Honorable Socrates Potter Talks of the by Irving Bacheller (1918)
"... WERE A nanny-goat AND GO OFF AND I^EAVE IT "Truth is a great teacher but she
often quarrels with the cook," said Mr. Potter, while looking at his watch. ..."
4. Lincoln by Edward Harold Mott (1909)
"i^uman THE Loss OF " TAD'S " NANNY GOAT. (From a letter to Mrs. Lincoln, ...
Tell dear Tad poor " Nanny Goat" is lost, and Mrs. Cuthbert and I are in ..."
5. The McCloskey Primer by Margaret Orvis McCloskey, Charles Copeland (1909)
"THE BILLY GOAT AND NANNY GOAT The billy goat sitteth and weepeth; He hath sent
the nanny goat after nuts; She hath gone away and disappeared. ..."
6. The Thompson Readers: Book One by John Gilbert Thompson, Inez Bigwood (1917)
"cried Billy-goat, and he ran off to tell nanny-goat. Billy-goat found nanny-goat
back of the barn eating anything she could find. " Good day, nanny-goat," ..."
7. Jewish Code of Jurisprudence: Talmudical Law Decisions, Civil, Criminal and by Joseph ben Ephraim Karo, Jacob Louis Kadushin (1921)
"If the dog and the nanny goat jump from down to up and they break the vessels
the owner must pay only half damages when the nanny goat was climbing and ..."
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