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)
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• Italian: capra (it) f
• Latin: capra f, capella 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)