Toggenburgn.
/ˈtɒɡənbəːɡ/ Used attributively and absol. to designate a hornless light brown goat belonging to a breed first developed in the Toggenburg region.
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1886 H. S. H. Pegler Bk. Goat (ed. 3) iii. 27 The Toggenburgh goat is generally hornless, and of a rather unusual colour, being a pale drab.
1891 Goat-Keeper Sept. 7/2 Champion Zampa, Swiss Toggenburg Goat, 5 years old, short-haired, hornless.
1921 Blackwood's Mag. June 764/2 The white Nanny and her kid are Alpino goats, and the brown lot are Toggenburgs.
1937 E. B. White Let. 9 Sept. (1976) 162 He lives there, with a wife, three children, and a Toggenburg goat.
1979 B. Malamud Dubin's Lives ix. 356 One of the Toggenburgs was killed in the goat pasture by a dog.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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