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goat-herd, goatherd|ˈgəʊthəd|
[f. goat + herd n.2; cf. Du. geitenherder, G. geiszhirt (MHG. geiȥhirte), Sw. getherde, Da. gedehyrde.]
One who tends goats.
c1000Rect. Sing. Pers. §15 in Schmid Gesetze 380 Gat⁓hyrde ᵹebyreð his heorde meolc ofer Martinus mæssedæiᵹ [etc.]. c1050Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 379/12 Caprarius, gat⁓hiorde. c1440Promp. Parv. 206/1 Goot herde, capercus. c1475Pict. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 814/13 Hic capriarius, a gateheyrd. 1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. July 1 Is not thilke same a goteheard prowde, That sittes on yonder bancke. c1580Satir. Poems Reform. xliii. 67 Gyges the gait-hird, ane michtie conquerour. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 183 The Goatherds of the Countrey do give thereof to their Cattel. 1791Cowper Odyss. xvii. 298 To whom the goat-herd answer thus return'd. 1814Scott Ld. of Isles v. i, The goat-herd drove his kids to steep Ben-Ghoil. 1882Ouida Maremma I. 188 Yet he was only a young goatherd about 10 years of age.
quasi-adj.a1586Sidney Arcadia ii. (1598) 219 Ye Gote⁓heard Gods, that loue the grassie mountaines.
Hence ˈgoat-herdess, a female goat-herd.
1773A. Grant Lett. fr. Mts. (1807) I. vi. 51, I will not be a shepherdess, but a goatherdess. 1830Blackw. Mag. XXVIII. 2 He is flirting with a red-headed Highland goatherdess. 1891Pall Mall G. 4 Dec. 6/1 Mdme. T...in her early days, was a shepherdess, or, to be quite accurate, a ‘goatherdess’ in rural France. |