nanny goat

nanny goat

See also: nannygoat and nanny-goat

English

Alternative forms

• nanny-goat, nannygoat

Noun

nanny goat (plural nanny goats)

1. A female goat.
   • 1957, J. D. Salinger, "Zooey", in, 1961, Franny and Zooey:

     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.

Synonyms

• nanny
• she-goat

Translations

female goat

Albanian: dhi (sq) f Burmese: ဆိတ်မ (my) (hcitma.) Catalan: cabra (ca) f Chinese: 羭 (zh) (yú) Czech: koza (cs) f Esperanto: kaprino Finnish: kuttu (fi) French: chèvre (fr) f, bique (fr) f (colloquial) German: Geiß (de) f (Austrian, Swiss, South German), Mutterziege f, Zicke (de) f, Ziegenweibchen n Ido: kaprino (io)

Italian: capra (it) f Latin: capra f Low German: Zeeg f, Zääg f, Seeg f, Sääg f Navajo: tłʼízítsaʼii Norwegian: Bokmål: geit (no) c Nynorsk: geit f Portuguese: cabra (pt) f Russian: коза́ (ru) f (kozá) Volapük: jikapar (vo)