different between sheep vs sheepshagger

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

Alternative forms

• sheep-shagger
• sheep shagger

Etymology

From sheep +? shagger; originally military slang. First used in the 1950s.

Noun

sheepshagger (plural sheepshaggers)

1. (Britain, slang) A man who engages in sexual intercourse with sheep; usually used as a slur for a rural person seen as unsophisticated.
   • 1958, John Le Carré, The Naive and Sentimental Lover

     "Landlord, you're a lowlander and a sheep-shagger and you come from Gerrard's Cross. Goodnight."

   • 1958, Mark Bence-Jones, Paradise Escaped iv. 73

     I used to know a Rockburn once... He was in the Sheep Shaggers.

   • 1982, Private Eye, 2 July, 11/1

     She is now back and planning a Victory Parade not to mention her own visit to the newly reconquered territories to receive the homage of the grateful sheepshaggers, all fifty-nine of them.

   • 1992, Ian Pattison, More Rab C. Nesbitt Scripts, 62

     Who are you calling a sheepshagger?
2. (Britain, slang, derogatory) A term of abuse for inhabitants of various countries or regions which have large populations of sheep.
   1. A person from Wales.
      • 2007, Extras (TV series), Christmas Special

        Shaun: Kids can be cruel, eh?

        Darren: Yeah. They can.

        Shaun: What do they say?

        Darren: You know what they say.

        Shaun: What, "lanky four-eyed twat"?

        Darren: Yeah.

        Shaun: "Weirdo goggle-eyed gimp"?

        Darren: Sometimes.

        Shaun: "Frankenstein's albino gonk"?

        Darren: I've never heard that one.

        Shaun: It's so easy to have a go at a bloke who looks like you, you're just easy pickings, and it's... [trails off and shakes his head]

        Darren: "Sheepshagger" they've said sometimes as well.

        Shaun: I thought "sheepshagger" was Welsh.

        Darren: No, it can be Bristol as well.

        Shaun: I thought Bristol was inbreeding.

        Darren: Sheepshagging, inbreeding, slavery... we're famous for loads of stuff down there.

        Shaun: Oh, all right.

   2. A person from New Zealand.
   3. A supporter of Derby County F.C., a reference to the club nickname of The Rams.

See also

• goatfucker