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sheep
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)
- (countable) A woolly ruminant of the genus Ovis.
- (countable) A timid, shy person who is easily led by others.
- (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.
- 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
- 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
- (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)
- sheep
Descendants
- English: sheep, shoop
- Tok Pisin: sipsip (reduplication)
- ? Rotokas: sipisipi
- ? Abenaki: azib (from "a sheep")
- ? Chuukese: siip
- ? Coeur d'Alene: sip
- ? Quiripi: sheeps
- Tok Pisin: sipsip (reduplication)
- 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)
- sheep (woolly ruminant of the genus Ovis)
Alternative forms
- schepe, scheep, scheip, schip, schap
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heaf
English
Noun
heaf
- (Northern England) A piece of mountain pasture to which a farm animal has become hefted; a heft.
Verb
heaf (third-person singular simple present heafs, present participle heafing, simple past and past participle heafed)
- (Northern England) (of farm animals, especially a flock of sheep) To become accustomed to and attached to an area of mountain pasture, seldom straying from it.
Anagrams
- HFEA, hafe
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