sheepdog
nounEtymology
Definitions
Any of various breeds of dog used for herding sheep
Any of various breeds of dog used for herding sheep; an individual of such a breed.
Any of various breeds of dog used for guarding sheep
Any of various breeds of dog used for guarding sheep; an individual of such a breed.
A chaperon
A chaperon; an adult who accompanies other people in a supervisory role.
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A police officer.
To chaperon or shepherd.
- 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 ...
- On June 14, with Kennedy personally sheepdogging it, the No Child Left Behind Act passed the Senate ninety-one to eight.
The neighborhood
- neighborAbruzzese Sheepdog
- neighborCatalan Sheepdog
- neighborCroatian Sheepdog
- neighborCumberland Sheepdog
- neighborDutch Sheepdog
- neighborGaucho Sheepdog
- neighborHimalayan Sheepdog
- neighborIcelandic Sheepdog
- neighborMaremmano-Abruzzese Sheepdog
- neighborMaremma Sheepdog
- neighborOld English Sheepdog
- neighborPatagonian Sheepdog
Derived
Abruzzese Sheepdog, Catalan Sheepdog, Croatian Sheepdog, Cumberland Sheepdog, Dutch Sheepdog, Gaucho Sheepdog, Himalayan Sheepdog, Icelandic Sheepdog, Maremmano-Abruzzese Sheepdog, Maremma Sheepdog, Old English Sheepdog, Patagonian Sheepdog, Polish Lowland Sheepdog, Polish Tatra Sheepdog, Portuguese Sheepdog, sheepadoodle, Shetland Sheepdog, Shirak Sheepdog, Vikhan Sheepdog, Welsh Sheepdog
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for sheepdog. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA