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sheepadoodle

sheepadoodle noun: a dog that is a cross between an Old English Sheepdog and a poodle.

sheepadoodle: a dog that is a cross between an Old English Sheepdog and a poodle
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Noun

sheepadoodle (plural sheepadoodles)

  1. A dog that is a cross between an Old English Sheepdog and a poodle.
    • “What breed is he? Or she?” a woman […] asked me one morning. Her large black sheepdog mix circled around us. / “He,” I said. “Terrier mutt.” / “Don’t ever say that,” the woman scolded me. “Mutt is a horrible, insensitive, mean thing to call any dog.” Off she stalked with her sheepadoodle, or...2009, Steven Winn, “The Lake, the Beach and the Bluff”, in Come Back, Como: Winning the Heart of a Reluctant Dog, New York, N.Y.: Harper, →ISBN, page 257
    • Claire, our painfully cute sheepadoodle puppy was my constant companion.2015, Eliot Peper, “Acknowledgments”, in Uncommon Stock: Exit Strategy (The Uncommon Series; part III), [North Charleston, S.C.]: [CreateSpace], →ISBN

Examples of sheepadoodle in a sentence

  • “Mutt is a horrible, insensitive, mean thing to call any dog.” Off she stalked with her sheepadoodle, or whatever his precise and proper designation was.2009, Steven Winn, “The Lake, the Beach and the Bluff”, in Come Back, Como: Winning the Heart of a Reluctant Dog, New York, N.Y.: Harper...
  • My sheepadoodle turns and runs again to the woods past the goat pen, barking.2024, Sylvia Liu, chapter 1, in Near and Deer, New York, N.Y.: Scholastic Inc., →ISBN:

Forms of sheepadoodle

pluralsheepadoodles

Origin of sheepadoodle

Blend of sheepdog + poodle, after Labradoodle; compare doodle (“poodle crossbreed”).

Questions about sheepadoodle

What does sheepadoodle mean?
Sheepadoodle means a dog that is a cross between an Old English Sheepdog and a poodle.
How do you use sheepadoodle in a sentence?
“Mutt is a horrible, insensitive, mean thing to call any dog.” Off she stalked with her sheepadoodle, or whatever his precise and proper designation was.
What part of speech is sheepadoodle?
Sheepadoodle is a noun.
What is the plural of sheepadoodle?
The plural of sheepadoodle is sheepadoodles.

Words near sheepadoodle in the dictionary

  1. sheep-silver
  2. sheep-skin
  3. sheep-skins
  4. sheep-split
  5. sheep-splits
  6. sheepadoodle
  7. sheepadoodles
  8. sheepback
  9. sheepbacks
  10. sheepberries
  11. sheepberry

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