sheep
English
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Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: shēp, IPA(key): /ʃiːp/
Audio (Received Pronunciation): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ʃip/
Audio (General American): (file) - Rhymes: -iːp
Etymology 1
[edit]Inherited from Middle English schep, schepe, from Anglian Old English sċēp, a variant of sċēap, from Proto-West Germanic *skāp, from Proto-Germanic *skēpą (compare West Frisian skiep, North Frisian schäip, Dutch schaap, German Schaf), beside *keppô (compare Old Norse kjappi (“buck”), dialectal German Kippe (“newborn calf”)), of unknown origin. Perhaps from the same Scythian word (compare Ossetian цӕу (cæw, “goat”), Persian چپش (čapiš, “yearling goat”))[1] which was borrowed into Albanian as cjap, sqap (“buck”) and into Slavic (compare Polish cap). After Kroonen, *skēpą is instead from the root of Proto-Germanic *skabaną (“to scratch”) via Kluge's law.[2]
Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]sheep (countable and uncountable, plural sheep or (nonstandard, mostly humorous) sheeps)
- (countable) A woolly ruminant of the genus Ovis.
- (countable, strictly) A member of the domestic species Ovis aries, the most well-known species of Ovis.
- (countable) A timid, shy person who is easily led by others.
- Synonyms: lamb, ovine; see also Thesaurus:shy person
- (countable, chiefly Christianity, chiefly plural) A religious adherent, a member of a congregation or religious community (compare flock).
- 1990, Dave Mustaine, "Holy Wars... The Punishment Due", Megadeth, Rust in Peace.
- And fools like me, who cross the sea and come to foreign lands / Ask the sheep, for their beliefs do you kill on God's command?
- 1990, Dave Mustaine, "Holy Wars... The Punishment Due", Megadeth, Rust in Peace.
- (uncountable) Sheepskin leather.
- (countable, speech recognition) A person who is easily understood by a speech recognition system; contrasted with goat.
Synonyms
[edit]- See also Thesaurus:sheep
Derived terms
[edit]- antisheep
- Barbary sheep
- bighorn sheep
- bitesheep
- Bizet sheep
- black sheep
- blue sheep
- count sheep
- Dall sheep
- Dall's sheep
- domestic sheep
- don't teach your grandmother to steal sheep
- fat-tailed sheep
- geep
- giraffe sheep
- iSheep
- lost sheep
- Marco Polo sheep
- mountain sheep
- Nairobi sheep disease
- nonsheep
- one may as well hang for a sheep as a lamb
- run sheep run
- scabby sheep
- separate the sheep from the goats
- sheepback
- sheep-bell
- sheepberry
- sheep-biter
- sheep-biting
- sheepcote
- sheep-dip
- sheepdog
- sheep dog
- sheepdom
- sheep-faced
- sheep farmer
- sheepflesh
- sheepfold
- sheepfucker
- sheep-headed
- sheepherder
- sheepherding
- sheephook
- sheep in wolf's clothing
- sheepish
- sheep ked
- sheep laurel
- sheeple
- sheepless
- sheeplet
- sheeplike
- sheep-like
- sheepling
- sheep liver fluke
- sheep louse
- sheepman
- sheepmaster
- sheepmeat
- sheep milk
- sheepness
- sheepo
- sheep polypore
- sheeppox
- sheep-run
- sheepsfoot
- sheep-shagger
- sheepshagger
- sheep shagger
- sheepshank
- sheepshead
- sheepshearer
- sheepshearing
- sheepshit
- sheep-silver
- sheepskin
- sheep-skin
- sheep sorrel
- sheep-split
- sheep station
- sheepstealer
- sheepstealing
- sheep tick
- sheeptrack
- sheepwalk
- sheepwash
- sheepway
- sheepy
- shepherd
- Shepway
- Shipley
- shoat
- shoop (slang, chiefly humorous)
- snow sheep
- Spanish sheep
- Stone sheep
- thinhorn sheep
- vegetable sheep
- watersheep
- white sheep
- wolf guarding the sheep
- wolf in sheep's clothing
Descendants
[edit]- Tok Pisin: sipsip (reduplication)
- → Rotokas: sipisipi
- → Abenaki: azib (from "a sheep")
- → Chuukese: siip
- → Coeur d'Alene: sip
- → Quiripi: sheeps
Translations
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See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]Sheep on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Sheep (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Ovis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]sheep
References
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]sheep
- Alternative form of schep
Scots
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle English schep, from Old English scēap, from Proto-Germanic *skēpą.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sheep (plural sheep)
Alternative forms
[edit]Yola
[edit]Noun
[edit]sheep
- Alternative form of zheep
- 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 9, page 88:
- Wourlok'd an anooree, lick lhuskès o' sheep.
- Tumbled on one-another, like flocks of sheep.
References
[edit]- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 88
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