different between sheepdog vs peerie

English

Alternative forms

• sheep dog

Etymology

sheep +? dog

Pronunciation

Noun

sheepdog (plural sheepdogs)

1. A breed of dog, used for herding sheep.
2. A breed of dog used for guarding sheep.
3. (slang, dated) A chaperon; an adult who accompanies other people in a supervisory role.
4. (US, slang, law enforcement) A police officer.

Translations

Verb

sheepdog (third-person singular simple present sheepdogs, present participle sheepdogging, simple past and past participle sheepdogged)

1. To chaperon or shepherd.
   • 1999, David Weber, Echoes of Honor, Baen Publishing Enterprises (?ISBN):

     Given the vivacious young redhead's attractiveness, some might have assumed he had more than simply professional reasons for sheepdogging her career, but they would have been wrong. He'd seen something in her ...

   • 2009, Carl M. Cannon, Lou Dubose, Jan Reid, Boy Genius: Karl Rove, the Architect of George W. Bush's Remarkable Political Triumphs, PublicAffairs (?ISBN):

     On June 14, with Kennedy personally sheepdogging it, the No Child Left Behind Act passed the Senate ninety-one to eight.

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -???i

Adjective

peerie (comparative peerier, superlative peeriest)

1. (chiefly Shetland and Orkney) Small, tiny.

Noun

peerie (plural peeries)

1. A Shetland sheepdog.
2. Alternative form of peery (“spinning top”)

Scots

Etymology 1

Unknown.

Alternative forms

• peedie (Orkney, modern)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pi?ri/

Adjective

peerie (comparative peerier, superlative peeriest)

1. (Orkney, Shetland) small, little, tiny

Derived terms

• Peerie Sea (a placename, literally “little sea”)
• peerie folk (fairies, literally “little folk”)

Usage notes

• In modern Orcadian Scots, peedie gradually replaces this term.

Etymology 2

From peer (“pear”) +? -ie, due to the resemblance of some spinning tops to pears.

Noun

peerie (plural peeries)

1. A spinning top.

Descendants

• ? English: peery

References

• “peerie” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
• Flaws, Margaret; Lamb, Gregor (1996) The Orkney Dictionary, Kirkwall, Orkney: Orkney Language and Culture Group, published 2001, ?ISBN