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lamb

noun
/læm/

Etymology

From Middle English lamb, from Old English lamb, from Proto-West Germanic *lamb, from Proto-Germanic *lambaz, probably from Proto-Indo-European *h₁l̥h₁onbʰos, enlargement of *h₁elh₁én, ultimately from *h₁el-. See also Dutch lam, German Lamm, Bavarian Lamperl, Danish lam, Swedish lamm, Finnish lammas, Scottish Gaelic lon (“elk”), Ancient Greek ἔλαφος (élaphos, “red deer”). More at elk.

  1. inherited from *h₁l̥h₁onbʰos✻
  2. inherited from *lambaz✻
  3. inherited from *lamb✻
  4. inherited from lamb
  5. inherited from lamb

Definitions

  1. A young sheep.

    • Mary had a little lamb, its fleece as white as snow.

  2. A young goat

    A young goat; a kid.

    • The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], 1611, →OCLC, Exodus 12:5: “Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:”

  3. The flesh of a lamb used as food

    The flesh of a lamb used as food; (sometimes loosely) the flesh of a sheep of any age used as food.

  4. ›+ 15 more definitions

    1. A person who is meek, docile, and easily led.

      • Near-synonym: sheep

    2. Lambskin.

      • They were as alike as prisoners, dressed in black silk waists and fitted skirts, with shawls of crimped black lamb across their shoulders.

    3. A simple, unsophisticated person.

    4. One who ignorantly speculates on the stock exchange and is victimized.

    5. A fan of American singer, songwriter, actress, and record producer Mariah Carey (born…

      A fan of American singer, songwriter, actress, and record producer Mariah Carey (born 1969).

      • Part of me revels in the campiness of Mariah’s butterfly metaphors and puppies-and-kittens existence. […] But I also genuinely love her music, including this album. I’m one of her lambs.
      • Her latest album, “Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel,” is her best work yet, a warmer and more subtle album that makes her more relatable to those of us who aren’t Mariah die-hards—or “lambs,” as she refers to them.
      • This year, Ms. Carey debuted a new Las Vegas revue, and, to celebrate, a group of 36 “lambs,” mostly in their 30s and 40s, boarded a party bus and cruised the Vegas strip for about three hours.

    6. Of a sheep, to give birth.

    7. To assist (sheep) to give birth.

      • The shepherd was up all night, lambing her young ewes.

    8. A surname from Middle English.

    9. An unincorporated community in Craig Township, Switzerland County, Indiana, United States.

    10. An extinct town in Marion County, Missouri, United States.

    11. An islet (small island) in the Firth of Forth, East Lothian council area, Scotland (OS…

      An islet (small island) in the Firth of Forth, East Lothian council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT5386).

    12. Jesus

      Jesus; the Lamb of God

      • (See St. Paul's epistles, and the early Fathers.) And we have the expression "washed in the blood of the Lamb" adopted into the Christian Church.

    13. The constellation and zodiacal sign Aries.

      • The Fish, His Church in union bound; The Lamb, once slain, but now enthroned; The Bull the victory shall gain; The Twins, Divine and human reign.

    14. Alternative letter-case form of lamb (“a fan of Mariah Carey”).

      • Ryan Reynolds has labelled himself a ‘total Lamb’, as he was revealed to be the brains behind the idea of using Mariah Carey’s Fantasy as the anthem for his upcoming movie Free Guy.

    15. Acronym of lentigines, atrial myxomas, mucocutaneous myxomas, and blue naevi.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA