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sheepy

sheepy adjective: resembling or characteristic of a sheep.

Adjective

sheepy (comparative sheepier, superlative sheepiest)

  1. (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a sheep.
    Antonyms:
    nonovine

Noun

sheepy (plural sheepies)

  1. (childish, endearing) sheep
  2. (derogatory, endearing, informal, mildly) baby succubus

Proper noun capitalized: Sheepy

Sheepy (countable and uncountable, plural Sheepys)

  1. A civil parish in Hinckley and Bosworth district, Leicestershire, England, which includes the villages of Sheepy Magna and Sheepy Parva.
  2. A habitational surname from Old English.

Synonyms of sheepy

Antonyms

Forms of sheepy

Adjective
comparativesheepier
superlativesheepiest
Noun
pluralsheepies
Proper noun
pluralSheepys

Origin of sheepy

From sheep + -y.

From Old English sċēap (“sheep”) + īeġ (“island”).

Words formed from sheepy

Words that rhyme with sheepy

2 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about sheepy

What does sheepy mean?
Sheepy means resembling or characteristic of a sheep.
What part of speech is sheepy?
Sheepy can be an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.

Words near sheepy in the dictionary

  1. sheepwash
  2. sheepwashes
  3. sheepway
  4. sheepways
  5. sheepwise
  6. sheepy
  7. Sheepy Magna
  8. Sheepy Parva
  9. sheepyard
  10. sheepyards
  11. Sheepys

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