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sheepskin
  1. (uncountable) The skin of a sheep, especially when used to make parchment or in bookbinding.
  2. (US, countable) A diploma.
  3. (countable or uncountable) The tanned skin of a sheep with the fleece left on, especially when used for clothing, rugs, etc.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Executed on large sheets of sheepskin parchment, each extraordinarily delicate ink line drawing illustrates one canto or section of Dante's poem.”
      “His detractors lead one to imagine Mr Carey to be the archetypal cigar-chewing hard man in a sheepskin coat.”
      “In some coats the sheepskin is treated to look like fine fur, which makes bold statements in men's bomber and full-length styles.”
sheep
  1. (countable) A woolly ruminant of the genus Ovis.
  2. (countable) A timid, shy person who is easily led by others.
  3. (uncountable) Sheepskin leather.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “In the summer, the wild mammals are joined by flocks of domestic sheep and goats left to graze in the meadows.”
      “She's a cunning little fox who's pretending to be an innocent little sheep.”
      “It is a big, beautiful world with miles and miles of ocean, so why not be an individual instead of a sheep?”
shoop
  1. (Internet) An image that has been modified using Adobe Photoshop or similar image-manipulation software to produce a misleading impression; an instance of petty, amateur fauxtography.
sheeple
  1. (derogatory) People who unquestioningly accept as true whatever their political leaders say or who adopt popular opinion as their own without scrutiny.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “By the time the sheeple wake up and attempt to politically change things, it will be far to late.”
      “Five years of hearing the same thing over and over again and watching American sheeple fall for it over and over again is just too depressing.”
      “I am a lost little sheeple looking for some guidance out of the rocky ravine that is my ignorance.”
sheepishness
  1. The quality or property of being sheepish; shyness; bashfulness.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Ironic, too, that he's diffident to the point of sheepishness, even in front of the most adoring audience.”
      “While the actor is confident and cocky, he also has a kind of sheepishness that stops him being just another action star.”
      “But the elites' tendency to sheepishness proves many of them aren't the sharpest pencils in the box by a long shot.”
sheepmeat
sheepflesh
sheepherder
  1. A person who herds sheep; a shepherd.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The sheepherder went over to his storage hut and brought out one bale of wool.”
      “Whereupon he did as he had done once before when the offender had been a sheepherder.”
      “It's about as bad as being a sheepherder, only you won't have any sheep for company.”
shoop
  1. (humorous) A sheep; specifically singular form of sheep.
sheepling
sheepherding
  1. The activity of herding sheep
  2. Examples:
    1. “But there's not enough land anymore to rotate sheepherding areas, and there's no planning or development for that.”
      “At the end of the sheepherding demonstration, Kennard rewards his dogs by playing Frisbee and interacting with the audience.”
      “I was trying to think of one thing in life where we have that kind of control, and the only thing I could think of is sheepherding.”
sheepiness
  1. The state or quality of being sheepy.
sheepdom
  1. The quality or state of being a sheep.
sheepness
  1. The quality of being a sheep.
sheep
  1. (humorous) plural of shoop
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  3. Examples:
    1. “In the summer, the wild mammals are joined by flocks of domestic sheep and goats left to graze in the meadows.”
      “She's a cunning little fox who's pretending to be an innocent little sheep.”
      “It is a big, beautiful world with miles and miles of ocean, so why not be an individual instead of a sheep?”
sheepy
  1. (childish) sheep
sheepherders
sheepmeats
sheepskins
sheeplings
sheepe
  1. Obsolete form of sheep.
sheepies
  1. plural of sheepy
shoops
  1. plural of shoop
sheeps
  1. (nonstandard or obsolete) plural of sheep
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The path itself is of little interest, it is only a broad path slithering along lochs, lochans and sheeps.”
      “And here I realize that Wales are absolutely not a green flat meadow full of sheeps.”
      “Matching numerous sheeps into groups of three or more while dodging wolves and breaking down fences might not be as easy at it sounds.”
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