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shippon

UK/ˈʃɪpən/

shippon noun: a cattleshed.

Noun

shippon (plural shippons)

  1. (dialectal) A cattleshed.
    • He almost reached the timberline – but there the weather changed, a damp fog enveloped him, and he spent a couple of hours shivering all alone in a smelly shippon, waiting for the whirling mists to uncover the sun once more.1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill, published 1972, page 51

shippon meaning in Tamil and Bengali

shippon in Tamil

தொழுவம்

shippon in Bengali

একটি গোয়ালঘর

Forms of shippon

pluralshippons
alternative formshippen

Origin of shippon

From Middle English shipne, shepne, schüpene, from Old English sċypen, from Proto-Germanic *skupinī, from Proto-Germanic *skup- (whence shop). Cognate with German Schuppen (“shed”), and Bavarian Schupfn, Schupfa.

Questions about shippon

What does shippon mean?
Shippon means a cattleshed.
What is shippon in Tamil?
Shippon in Tamil is தொழுவம். See Shippon meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is shippon?
Shippon is a noun.
How do you pronounce shippon?
Shippon is pronounced /ˈʃɪpən/ (UK).
What is the plural of shippon?
The plural of shippon is shippons.

Words near shippon in the dictionary

  1. shipping masters
  2. shipping out
  3. shipping over
  4. shippings
  5. shippo
  6. shippon
  7. shippons
  8. shipps
  9. Shippses
  10. shippy
  11. Shippys

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shippon (page history and authors); shippon (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); shippon (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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