Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
ammon | the Asian wild sheep, aka ARGALI. [Gk. Ammon, a name for an Egyptian ram-headed god]. |
ancon | a breed of sheep with very short legs > ANCONES. |
aoudad audad | a N. African wild sheep. |
argali | the Asian wild sheep, aka AMMON. |
bharal burrel burrell burhel burrhel | a Himalayan blue sheep. |
bighorn | the Rocky Mountain sheep. |
billy | a male goat. |
blackface | a breed of sheep. |
broadtail | a KARAKUL lamb. |
bucardo | a recently extinct species of Spanish mountain goat. |
caprid | a member of the goat family. |
caprine | like a goat. |
caracul karakul | a sheep of Central Asia; the curled black fleece of its lambs. |
dinmont | a WETHER between the first and second shearing. |
dorper | one of a breed of mutton-producing sheep. |
fronter | a three-year-old sheep. |
geep | a creature produced by combining DNA from a sheep and a goat. |
gimmer | (Scots) a young ewe.TD> |
herdwick | a breed of sheep. |
hidder | (Spenser) a young male sheep. |
hogg hoggerel hogget | a yearling sheep. |
ibex | a wild mountain-goat. Pl. IBEXES or IBICES. |
izard | a variety of ibex found in the Pyrenees. |
jumbuck | (Australian) a sheep. |
landrace | a breed of Finnish sheep. |
llama | a S. American cud-chewing mammal, Llama glama, which belongs to the same family as camels but is smaller and humpless. |
merino | a sheep of fine-wooled Spanish breed. |
markhoor markhor | a wild goat of the mountains of Asia. |
montadale | any of an American breed of white-faced hornless sheep. [From Montana + dale]. |
moufflon mouflon muflon musmon musimon | a wild sheep, inhabiting the mountains of Sardinia, Corsica, etc. Its horns are very large, with a triangular base and rounded angles. |
oorial urial | a wild sheep of central Asia, that has a reddish coat and long curved horns. |
paco | an alpaca. [Sp. f. Quechua pako red, reddish yellow]. Pl. PACOS. |
rambouillet | a kind of sheep. |
rammish | like a ram; rank, lascivious. |
rammishly | in the manner of a ram. |
rammishness | the state of being RAMMISH. |
romeldale | an American breed of utility sheep. |
shearling | a one-year-old sheep, from which one crop of wool has been taken. |
sheeplike | like a sheep. |
shorthorn | a breed of sheep with short horns. |
tahr tehr | a Himalayan wild goat. |
takin | a large horned hoofed animal of the Himalayas, related to the goats and antelopes. |
teg tegg | a sheep in its second year. |
theave | a ewe lamb of the first year; also, a sheep three years old. |
tup | a ram; (verb) to copulate with a ewe. |
twinling | a young or little twin, especially a twin lamb. |
twinter | two years old; a two-year old sheep or other animal. |
vicugna vicuna | a wild wool-bearing llama-like animal of the Andes. |
wether | a castrated ram. |
wooler | a domestic animal raised for its wool. |
woolly | (Aust. sl.) a sheep before shearing. |
yow yowe | a ewe. |