different between sheep vs doeskin

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sh?p, IPA^(key): /?i?p/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?ip/
• Rhymes: -i?p

Etymology 1

From Middle English sheep, scheep, schep, schepe, from Old English s??ap, from Proto-West Germanic *sk?p, from Proto-Germanic *sk?p? (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 ??? (cæw, “goat”), Persian ???? (?apiš, “yearling goat”)) which was borrowed into Albanian as cjap, sqap (“buck”) and into Slavic (compare Polish cap). After Kroonen, *sk?p? is instead from the root of Proto-Germanic *skaban? (“to scratch”) via Kluge's law.

Alternative forms

• shoop (slang, chiefly humorous)
• sheeps (plural, nonstandard or obsolete, often humorous)
• sheepe (obsolete)

Noun

sheep (countable and uncountable, plural sheep)

1. (countable) A woolly ruminant of the genus Ovis.
2. (countable) A timid, shy person who is easily led by others.
3. (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.

4. (uncountable) Sheepskin leather.
5. (countable, speech recognition) A person who is easily understood by a speech recognition system; contrasted with goat.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:sheep

Derived terms

Descendants

• Tok Pisin: sipsip (reduplication)
  • ? Rotokas: sipisipi
• ? Abenaki: azib (from "a sheep")
• ? Chuukese: siip
• ? Coeur d'Alene: sip
• ? Quiripi: sheeps

Translations

See also

Further reading

• sheep on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• sheep on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Ovis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Etymology 2

Noun

sheep

1. (chiefly humorous) plural of shoop

References

Anagrams

• Ephes., HEPES, heeps, shepe

Middle English

Alternative forms

• scheep, schep, schepe

Etymology

From Old English sc?ap, from Proto-Germanic *sk?p? beside *keppô, of unknown origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e?p/, /???p/

Noun

sheep (plural sheep)

1. sheep

Descendants

• English: sheep, shoop
  • Tok Pisin: sipsip (reduplication)
    • ? Rotokas: sipisipi
  • ? Abenaki: azib (from "a sheep")
  • ? Chuukese: siip
  • ? Coeur d'Alene: sip
  • ? Quiripi: sheeps
• Scots: sheep
• Yola: zheep

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English sheep, scheep, schep, schepe, from Old English sc?ap, from Proto-Germanic *sk?p?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ip]

Noun

sheep (plural sheeps)

1. sheep (woolly ruminant of the genus Ovis)

Alternative forms

• schepe, scheep, scheip, schip, schap

English

Etymology

doe +? skin.

Noun

doeskin (countable and uncountable, plural doeskins)

1. (uncountable) Leather from the skin of a female deer or sheep.
2. (countable) The hide of a doe, as opposed to a buck.

   Frequently, doeskins had a higher value in trade than the skins of bucks, as they were considered of finer quality.

3. (countable, chiefly in the plural) A glove made of doeskin leather.

   Elizabeth accidentally left her doeskins on the pew at Sunday service.

4. (uncountable) A very soft, close-napped fabric, especially of high quality.
   • 1905, William Cowper Brann, The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10 [3]:

     In the morning Mr. Logan wore a doeskin box coat with pearl buttons nearly as large as alarm clocks in two rows on it.

Hyponyms

• skin