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shelty

shelty is the alternative form of Sheltie.

Meaning of Sheltie

Noun

Sheltie (plural Shelties)

  1. A Shetland pony; by extension, any small pony.
    • You, sir, doubtless, are well mounted, and I, for the present, travel upon foot, or on a Highland shelty, that does not help me much faster forward.1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in Rob Roy. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees...
  2. A Shetland sheepdog.
  3. (rare) A Shetlander.

Noun capitalized: Shelty

Shelty (plural Shelties)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of Sheltie.

Forms of shelty

pluralshelties
pluralShelties

Questions about shelty

What is shelty the alternative form of?
Shelty is the alternative form of Sheltie.
What part of speech is shelty?
Shelty is a noun.
What is the plural of shelty?
The plural of shelty is shelties.

Words near shelty in the dictionary

  1. sheltopusik
  2. sheltopusiks
  3. sheltron
  4. sheltrons
  5. sheltrum
  6. shelty
  7. shelve
  8. shelved
  9. shelver
  10. shelvers
  11. shelves

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shelty (page history and authors); Shelty (page history and authors); Sheltie (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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