different between sheep vs goat

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

From Middle English goot, got, gat, from Old English g?t, from Proto-West Germanic *gait, from Proto-Germanic *gaits, from a substrate language.

The sense of lecherous man derives from the slang expression "horny as a goat".

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???t/, /???t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?o?t/, [?o??(t?)], [?o?(?)t?]
• Rhymes: -??t
• (Scotland, Canada, North-East England) IPA^(key): /?o?t/
• (General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /????t/

Noun

goat (plural goats)

1. A mammal, Capra aegagrus hircus, and similar species of the genus Capra.
   1. (uncountable) The meat of the aforementioned animal.

2. (slang) A lecherous man.
3. (informal) A scapegoat.
   • 2008, "Tigers already miss Jones", in Royal Oak Daily Tribune (Michigan), Aug 6, 2008

     Fernando Rodney, the goat in Sunday's 10th inning loss to Tampa Bay, threw three nearly perfect innings in relief on Tuesday after being demoted from the closer role.

   • 1997, "1997 World Series", Game 7, bottom 11th inning, TV broadcast on NBC Sports, early morning October 27, 1997; words by Bob Costas

     Tony Fernández, who has worn hero's laurels throughout the postseason including earlier in this seventh game of the World Series, now cruel as it may seem, perhaps being fitted for goat horns.

4. (slang) A Pontiac GTO car.
5. (speech recognition) A person who is not easily understood by a speech recognition system; contrasted with sheep.
6. A fool, loser, or object of ridicule.

Synonyms

• (lecherous man): See also Thesaurus:libertine
• (scapegoat): See also Thesaurus:scapegoat

Holonyms

• (group of goats): tribe, herd

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Abenaki: kots (from "goats")
• ? Marshallese: koot
• ? Rotokas: goti

Translations

See also

• chevon
• ewe
• herd
• hircine
• kid
• ram
• tribe
• Appendix:collective nouns objects-G

Verb

goat (third-person singular simple present goats, present participle goating, simple past and past participle goated)

1. (transitive) To allow goats to feed on.
   • 1918, Agricultural Experiment Station, Director's Biennial Report - Page 51

     Rape and clover has yielded 283 sheep days of pasture, practically dry weather […] For the coming year it is planned to goat this area continuously

2. (transitive) To scapegoat.
   • 2001, "A worthy Rusch to judgment", in USA Today, July 15, 2001

     John Rocker, meanwhile, was spared from getting goated because he didn't blow a save

Anagrams

• gato, Gøta, Toga, atgo, toga, TOGA

West Frisian

Noun

goat c (plural goaten, diminutive goatsje)

1. Alternative form of goate