nanny goat
nanny goat — noun
1. An adult female goat, kept for its milk or for breeding — commonly called a nann
An adult female goat, kept for its milk or for breeding — commonly called a nanny goat in everyday farm conversation, especially when contrasting it with a male billy goat.
The farmer's best nanny goat gave birth to two healthy kids this morning.
collocation: nanny goat + give birth / kid
Soraya milked the nanny goat before breakfast, as she did every day.
Nanny goats can produce milk for about ten months after giving birth.
Minh's family kept a small herd of nanny goats on their farm in Vermont.
The petting zoo let the children feed hay to the nanny goats each afternoon.
The children learned to tell a nanny goat from a billy goat by its horns.
Selim bought two nanny goats and one billy goat for his new farm.
A nanny goat usually has smaller, straighter horns than a billy goat does.
Lauren's daughter showed her pet nanny goat at the county fair and won second place.
Nanny goats are valued for their milk, while billy goats are raised mainly for breeding.
- female goat
the standard neutral term, used in formal and scientific writing
- doe
a technical term for a female goat, also used for deer and rabbits
- she-goat
an older, less common term
- billy goat
the term for a male goat
- male goat
the neutral equivalent
- buck
a technical term for a male goat
- he-goat
an older term for male goat
用法筆記
Frequently appears in farming and petting-zoo contexts. The compound is especially common when the speaker needs to make clear that the goat is female, often in direct or implied contrast with 'billy goat'. In neutral descriptions where sex is irrelevant, prefer just 'goat'. The baby goat is called a kid, not a 'baby goat.'