nylghau
Americannoun
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nylghaus,
plural
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nylghau
plural
noun
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The zebra chews, the nylghau has n't stirred; But something 's happened, Heaven knows what or where, To freeze your scalp and pompadour your hair.
From Gloucester Moors and Other Poems by William Vaughn Moody
“No; the big, solid-hoofed antelope that eats like nylghau or quagga.”
From Charge! A Story of Briton and Boer by George Manville Fenn
But—" "'But,' said the nylghau, and the wolf-pack had him!
From Rung Ho! by Talbot Mundy
The zebra chews, the nylghau hasn't stirred; But something's happened, Heaven knows what or where, To freeze your scalp and pompadour your hair.
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.) by Marshall Pinckney Wilder
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