Meaning
A nanny goat — a female goat, kept for milk, kids, and eventually meat, and a familiar sight tethered on the roadside verge. She stars in the well-known proverb 'wah sweet nanny goat a go run him belly' — what tastes sweet to the goat will upset its stomach; present pleasure brings later trouble.
Examples
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Di nanny goat have two kid.
The nanny goat has two kids.
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Wah sweet nanny goat a go run him belly.
What is sweet to the nanny goat will run its belly.
A proverb: pleasure now, trouble later.
Origin
'nanny' + 'goat' = female goat. See [[wah-sweet-nanny-goat]], [[goat-head-soup]].
How it’s used
A female goat; central to the 'wah sweet nanny goat' proverb.