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Billy goat   /bˈɪli goʊt/   Listen
Billy goat

noun
1.
Male goat.  Synonyms: billy, he-goat.






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"Billy goat" Quotes from Famous Books



... light and twinkles not. I would that I knew! There! there's mine, my own star, far up, only paling while the sun glaring blazes in the sky; mine own, he that from afar drives the stars in Charles's Wain. There they come, the good old twinkling team of three, and the four of the Wain! Old Billy Goat knows them too! Up he gets, and all in his wake "Ha-ha-ha" he calls, and the Nannies answer. Ay, and the sheep are rising up too! How white they look in the moonshine! Piers—deaf as he is—waking at their music. Ba, they call the lambs! Nay, that's ...
— The Herd Boy and His Hermit • Charlotte M. Yonge



Words linked to "Billy goat" :   goat, caprine animal



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