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sheep-skin

sheep-skin is the alternative spelling of sheepskin.

Meaning of sheepskin

Noun

sheepskin (countable and uncountable, plural sheepskins)

  1. (uncountable) The skin of a sheep, especially an adult sheep, and especially when used to make parchment or in bookbinding.
    • Near-synonym: lambskin
    Synonyms:
    lambskin
    1. The tanned skin of a sheep with the fleece left on, especially when used for clothing, rugs, etc.
  2. (US, countable) A diploma, especially the one representing a university or college degree.
    • […] he took his sheepskin with a bow and a gesture that extinguished several of his companions;1919, Henry Blake Fuller, chapter 32, in Bertram Cope’s Year, Chicago: R.F. Seymour, page 302

Forms of sheep-skin

pluralsheep-skins

Questions about sheep-skin

What is sheep-skin the alternative spelling of?
Sheep-skin is the alternative spelling of sheepskin.

Words near sheep-skin in the dictionary

  1. sheep-run
  2. sheep-runs
  3. sheep-shagger
  4. sheep-shaggers
  5. sheep-silver
  6. sheep-skin
  7. sheep-skins
  8. sheep-split
  9. sheep-splits
  10. sheepadoodle
  11. sheepadoodles

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sheep-skin (page history and authors); sheepskin (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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