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goatherd

[goht-hurd]

noun

  1. a person who tends goats.



goatherd

/ ˈɡəʊˌɜː /

noun

  1. a person employed to tend or herd goats

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of goatherd1

before 1000; Middle English; Old English ٳ. See goat, herd 2
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I wished I could return to my village, where I had chores of my own and knew how to earn a bowl from the goatherd’s stew pot.

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An old goatherd imparts sage advice, telling Damien that “time shifts for the grieving. Our bodies change; things don’t quite appear the same anymore.”

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The beast shook as he transformed himself back and forth between his goatherd self and the grotesque form of the fiendish chupacabras.

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His father, a goatherd, added to his income with railroad construction work.

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Hama Soor wore the standard outfit of a Zagros goatherd: wide trousers, a broad waistband and a tasseled brown head scarf whose pattern was so typically Kurdish it sometimes got wearers in trouble in Turkey.

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