Cameroon

Fernão do Pó
Lepidophthalmus turneranus
Wouri River

Borrowed from French Cameroun, from Portuguese Rio dos Camarões (“river of prawns”), a name given to the Wouri river estuary, in 1472 by the sailors of the Portuguese explorer Fernão do Pó (a.k.a. Fernando Pó), raving about the abundance of shrimps of the species Lepidophthalmus turneranus (the Cameroon ghost shrimp) in the river; camarão itself is from Latin cammarus (“lobster”), from Ancient Greek κάμμαρος (kámmaros, “a kind of lobster or shrimp”).

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Republic of Cameroon
w:Republic of Cameroon

A country in Central Africa. Official name: Republic of Cameroon. Capital: Yaoundé. It also claims Ambazonia.


Cameroon

A sheep of a domesticated breed from West Africa.


Cameroon

Alteration of Cameron, influenced by -oon.

He fears that in downplaying traditional Conservative causes, in changing the party to be more in tune with modern Britain, the Cameroons have in effect accepted that they won't change the country much in office.

2007 March 21, Andy Beckett, “The Cameroons”, in The Guardian:

Today, I spy a coalition outrider: Nick Boles, MP for Grantham, founder of Policy Exchange and the archetypal Cameroon ultra-modernizer. I don’t think Boles even owned a tie until he was elected to the House of Commons. That’s how much of a Cameroon the man is.

2010 September 13, Iain Martin, “Nick Boles: The Coalition’s Cameroon Outrider”, in Wall Street Journal:

Maude was a moderniser before modernity dawned in the Tory ranks, a Cameroon before David Cameron.

2012 March 30, James Chapman, “Gorgeous George and why Ed Miliband must now pray Ken Livingstone wins London”, in Daily Mail:

Mr Cameron won significantly smaller vote shares than either Theresa May or Boris Johnson. There are not many Cameroons in Britain. Outside some newspaper op-ed pages, there never were.

2023 November 13, Bagehot, “What David Cameron's return says about British politics”, in Economist:

(UK politics) A Conservative Party member with green or social liberal leanings, supporting the policies of David Cameron.


musk ox

So called because of the strong odour, or musk, emitted by the males during the rutting season.

Its ʽcore faunaʼ consisted of the woolly mammoth, woolly rhino, saiga, muskox and the arctic fox. All except the woolly rhino evolved in the northern Arctic, and all had been evolving for several million years before their modern forms appeared.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 205:

An Arctic mammal, Ovibos moschatus of the Caprinae subfamily of the family Bovidae, having a thick coat and long curved horns.


bighorn sheep

Ovis canadensis
Ovis canadensis#Translingual

especially, Ovis canadensis, having large, curving horns.


chamois

en-noun

chamois (countable and uncountable, plural chamoises or chamois)

chamoises (plural)
chamois (plural)
chamoix (alternative)
shamois (alternative)
shamoy (alternative)

Borrowed from Middle French chamois, from Late Latin camox, from Gaulish camox (5th c. AD, Polemius Silvius), probably from an extinct Alpine language (Raetic, Ancient Ligurian), possibly Proto-Indo-European *kem- (“without horns”). Compare also Old High German gamiza (“chamois”) (whence modern German Gämse).

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When my father returned from Milan, he found playing with me in the hall of our villa a child fairer than pictured cherub – a creature who seemed to shed radiance from her looks and whose form and motions were lighter than the chamois of the hills.

1831 October 31, Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, chapter I, in Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus (Standard Novels; IX), 3rd edition, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 22:

Rupicapra rupicapra
Rupicapra rupicapra#Translingual

A short-horned goat antelope native to mountainous terrain in southern Europe; Rupicapra rupicapra.


sheep

en-noun

sheep (countable and uncountable, plural sheep or (nonstandard, humorous or childish) sheeps)

sheep (plural)
sheeps (childish humorous nonstandard plural)
shoop (alternative)
sheepe (alternative)

desctree

Tok Pisin: sipsip (reduplication)
→ Rotokas: sipisipi

→ Abenaki: azib (from "a sheep")

→ Chuukese: siip

→ Coeur d'Alene: sip

→ Quiripi: sheeps

Inherited from Middle English schep, schepe, from Anglian Old English sċēp (West Saxon sċēap), from Proto-West Germanic *skāp, from Proto-Germanic *skēpą , of unknown origin.
Perhaps from the same Scythian word (compare Ossetian цӕу (cæw, “goat”), Persian چپش (čapiš, “yearling goat”)) which was borrowed into Albanian as cjap, sqap (“buck”) and into Slavic (compare Polish cap). After Kroonen, *skēpą is instead from the root of Proto-Germanic *skabaną (“to scratch”) via Kluge's law.
See also West Frisian skiep, North Frisian schäip, Dutch schaap, German Schaf), beside Proto-Germanic *keppô (compare Old Norse kjappi (“buck”), dialectal German Kippe (“newborn calf”)).

don't teach your grandmother to steal sheep

one may as well hang for a sheep as a lamb

(countable) A woolly ruminant of the genus Ovis.

(countable, strictly) A member of the domestic species Ovis aries, the most well-known species of Ovis.

(countable) A timid, shy person who is easily led by others.


goat

en-noun

goat (countable and uncountable, plural goats)

→ Abenaki: kots (from "goats")

→ Marshallese: koot

→ Rotokas: goti

→ Tongan: koti, kosi

desctree

→ Samoan: ʻoti
→ Rotuman: ʻoti
→ Tokelauan: oti

From Middle English goot, got, gat, from Old English gāt, from Proto-West Germanic *gait, from Proto-Germanic *gaits, from a substrate language.
The sense of lecherous man derives from the slang expression "horny as a goat".

(acronym) Alternative letter-case form of GOAT (“Greatest of All Time”)


ibex

ibex (plural)
ibexes (plural)
ibices (plural)
ibecks (alternative)

From Latin ībex (“chamois”), possibly from Iberian or Aquitanian; akin to Old Spanish bezerro (“bull”) (modern becerro (“yearling”)).

A type of wild mountain goat of the genus Capra, such as the species Capra ibex.


mouflon

mouflons (plural)
moufflon (alternative)

Unadapted borrowing from French mouflon, from Italian muflone. From 1765–1775.

One of the most modified domesticates is the sheep, the various breeds of which bear little resemblance to its wild ancestor, the mouflon.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 237:

A species of wild sheep, Ovis orientalis musimon, syn. Ovis aries musimon, endemic to Sardinia and Corsica.


ram

From Middle English ram, rom, ramme, from Old English ramm (“ram”), from Proto-Germanic *rammaz (“ram”), possibly from *rammaz (“strong”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Rom (“ram”), Dutch ram (“a male sheep”), German Ramm, Ramme (“ram”). Possibly akin also to Danish ram (“sharp; acrid; rank”), Swedish ram (“strong; perfect”), Faroese ramur (“strong; competent”), Icelandic rammur (“strong; sturdy”).

(zoology, agriculture) A male sheep, typically uncastrated.

A battering ram; a heavy object used for breaking through doors.

He describes the operation thus: "The heavy ram employed to impart the finishing strokes, hoisted up with double purchase and snail's pace to the summit of the Piling Engine, and then falling down like a thunderbolt on the head of the devoted timber, driving it perhaps a single half inch in to the stratum below, is well calculated to put to the test the virtue of patience, while it illustrates the old adage of—slow and sure."

1952 July, W. R. Watson, “Sankey Viaduct and Embankment”, in Railway Magazine, page 487:

A weight which strikes a blow, in a ramming device such as a pile driver, steam hammer, or stamp mill.


ram

en-adj

ram (comparative more ram, superlative most ram)

more ram (comparative)
most ram (superlative)

Likely from Old Norse ramr, rammr (“strong, rank, bitter”), from Proto-Germanic *rammaz (“strong, overbearing; acrid, rank”), perhaps ultimately related to Etymology 1 above. Compare Scots ram (“a rank odour”). Compare also Middle English rammish (“rank, offensive in smell”).

cog

(Northern England) Rancid; offensive in smell or taste.


ewe

From Middle English ewe, from Old English eowu, from Proto-West Germanic *awi, from Proto-Germanic *awiz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ówis (“sheep”).
Cognates
See also Old English ēow (“sheep”), West Frisian ei, Dutch ooi, German Aue); also Old Irish oí, Latin ovis, Tocharian B ā(ᵤ)w, Lithuanian avìs (“ewe”), Russian овца́ (ovcá).

This twentie yeeres haue I bene with thee: thy ewes and thy ſhee goates haue not caſt their yong, and the rammes of thy flocke haue I not eaten.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 31:38, column 2:


mountain goat

A sure-footed goat antelope, Oreamnos americanus, of the North American mountains, having black curved horns and a shaggy coat.

ʔəsbe

many Witsuwit'en subdialects, but used in others for "sheep"


wether

From Middle English wether, wethir, wedyr, from Old English weþer (“a wether, ram”), from Proto-West Germanic *weþru, from Proto-Germanic *weþruz (“wether”), from Proto-Indo-European *wet- (“year”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots weddir, woddir, wadder (“wether”), Dutch weder, weer (“wether”), German Widder (“wether, ram”), Norwegian Bokmål vær (“ram”), Norwegian Nynorsk vêr (“ram”), Swedish vädur (“wether, ram”), Icelandic veður (“wether, ram”), Latin vitulus (“calf”).


wether

en-verb

wether (third-person singular simple present wethers, present participle wethering, simple past and past participle wethered)

wethers (present singular third-person)
wethering (participle present)
wethered (participle past)
wethered (past)
wedder (alternative)

(transitive) To castrate a male sheep or goat.


wether

There was a great fyer in the chamber, the wether was colde, and I saw now and then a Bishop come out;

1527, George Joye, The storie of my state after the bishop had receyued the pryours letters:


doe

en-noun

doe (countable and uncountable, plural doe or does)

From Middle English do, from Old English dā (“female deer”), from Proto-West Germanic *daijā, from Proto-Germanic *dajjǭ (“female deer, mother deer”), from Proto-Germanic *dajjaną (“to suckle”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck (milk), to suckle”).
Cognate with Scots da, dae (“female deer”), Alemannic German tē (“doe”), Danish då (“deer, doe”), Sanskrit धेनु (dhenú, “cow, milk-cow”), Old English dēon (“to suckle”), Old English delu (“teat”). Related also to female, filial, fetus.

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LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-doe.wav


Capricornus

/ˌkæpɹɪˈkɔːnəs/

/ˌkæpɹɪˈkɔːɹnəs/

From Middle English, borrowed from Latin Capricornus, from capra (“goat”) and cornū (“horn”).


sheepfold

Inherited from Middle English shepefald, perhaps from Late Old English sċēapa falde (literally “sheep's fold”), equivalent to sheep + fold.

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If civilized life had covered over the ancient verities, Dumuzi learns in his tragic death that the sheepfold is still there to reclaim him.

1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 180:


lamb

en-noun

lamb (countable and uncountable, plural lambs or (both dialectal) lamber or lambren)

lambs (plural)
lamber (dialectal plural)
lambren (dialectal plural)

From Middle English lamb, from Old English lamb, from Proto-West Germanic *lamb, from Proto-Germanic *lambaz, probably from Proto-Indo-European *h₁l̥h₁onbʰos, enlargement of *h₁elh₁én, ultimately from *h₁el-.
See also Dutch lam, German Lamm, Bavarian Lamperl, Danish lam, Swedish lamm, Finnish lammas, Scottish Gaelic lon (“elk”), Ancient Greek ἔλαφος (élaphos, “red deer”). More at elk.

cog

March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb

Mary had a little lamb, its fleece as white as snow.

(finance, slang) One who ignorantly speculates on the stock exchange and is victimized.

Holonym: Lambily

Alternative form: Lamb

Part of me revels in the campiness of Mariah’s butterfly metaphors and puppies-and-kittens existence. […] But I also genuinely love her music, including this album. I’m one of her lambs.

Her latest album, “Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel,” is her best work yet, a warmer and more subtle album that makes her more relatable to those of us who aren’t Mariah die-hards—or “lambs,” as she refers to them.

2010 February 15, Greg Kot, “Mimi cuts loose: Mariah Carey concert at Chicago Theatre shows that the diva can laugh at herself”, in Chicago Tribune, 163rd year, number 46, section 3, page 6:

This year, Ms. Carey debuted a new Las Vegas revue, and, to celebrate, a group of 36 “lambs,” mostly in their 30s and 40s, boarded a party bus and cruised the Vegas strip for about three hours.

2019 January 3, Rich Juzwiak, “In Praise of Their Diva”, in The New York Times, section D, page 1:

But when I saw Mariah in Detroit last year during the Caution World Tour, I was a proud lamb in my tour T-shirt, my very adult body suddenly transformed into my 14-year-old self when she emerged onstage.

2020 February 25, Chris Azzopardi, “I Love You (But Do You Love Mariah Carey?)”, in The New York Times:

Pride Month begins June 1, and Mariah Carey is giving her lambs plenty of new clothes to celebrate.

2022, “Mariah Carey releases her exclusive Pride merchandise”, in WRMF:

(slang) A fan of American singer, songwriter, actress, and record producer Mariah Carey (born 1969).


kid

en-noun

kid (countable and uncountable, plural kids)

From Middle English kide, from Old Norse kið (“young goat”), from Proto-Germanic *kidją, *kittīną (“goatling, kid”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gʰaydn-, *ǵʰaydn- (“goat”) or Proto-Indo-European *gidʰ- (“kid, goatling, little goat”). Compare Swedish and Danish kid, German Kitz and Kitze, Albanian kedh and kec.
Sense of child since 1590s as cant, since 1840s in informal use.

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is that what the kids are calling it these days

Only '90s kids will remember this toy.

He's been living in Los Angeles for years now, but he's a Florida kid.

(informal) A child (usually), teenager, or young adult; a juvenile.

(informal) A person whose childhood took place in a particular time period or area.

No, kid, you didn't do anything wrong; they did!

Here's looking at you, kid.

1942, Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch, Casablanca, spoken by Rick (Humphrey Bogart):

(in the vocative) Used as a form of address for a child, teenager or young adult.

I have three pairs of kid gloves. I've had kid mittens before from the Christmas tree, but never real kid gloves with five fingers.

1912, Jean Webster, Daddy-Long-Legs: Letter 3:

So saying, he gathered together, and brought to a flame, the decaying brands which lay scattered on the ample hearth; took from the larger board a mess of pottage and seethed kid, placed it upon the small table at which he had himself supped, and without waiting the Jew's thanks, went to the other side of the hall;—[…].

1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter VII, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, pages 85–86:

A young goat.
(uncountable) The meat of a young goat.


fleece

en-noun

fleece (countable and uncountable, plural fleeces)

From Middle English flees, flese, flus, fleos, from Old English flēos, flīes, flȳs, from Proto-West Germanic *fleus.

The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.


geep

A sheep–goat hybrid, an animal with DNA from a goat and from a sheep, whether produced artificially or by natural intermating.


jharal

Hemitragus jemlahicus
Hemitragus jemlahicus#Translingual

The Himalayan tahr, Hemitragus jemlahicus ( <= Capra jemlaica).


granny

grannies (plural)
grammy (alternative)
grannie (alternative)

The suitcase was old. The brown leather was battered and scuffed. Two hanks of clothesline had been wrapped around it and tied in large, clownish grannies.

1977, Stephen King, Children of the Corn:


placer

(slang) One who deals in stolen goods; a fence.


agrimi

A type of goat with long horns that curl back, native to Crete, subspecies Capra hircus cretica, sometimes Capra aegagrus cretica et al.


billy

Uncertain, but probably extracted from Scots billypot (“a type of cooking pot”), perhaps originally from the name Billy, a diminutive of William.
The condom sense from the E-Rotic song Willy, Use a Billy... Boy, referring in turn to Billy Boy, a German brand of condoms.

cog

A term applied to various machines or implements:

Let's get the billy and cook some beans.

We had been absent from civilisation, so long, that our tin billies, the only boiling utensils we had, got completely worn or burnt out at the bottoms, and as the boilings for glue and oil must still go on, what were we to do with billies with no bottoms?

1889, Ernest Giles, Australia Twice Traversed, published 2004, page 239:

Oh there once was a swagman camped in the billabong,
Under the shade of a coolibah tree,
And he sang as he looked at the old billy boiling,
'Who'll come a'waltzing Matilda, with me.'

1895, “Waltzing Matilda”, Banjo Paterson (lyrics):

Mother prepared a splendid picnic. […] Rugs, food and the black billy for making tea, were packed into the old baby buggy and we trundled it straight down Simcoe Street.

1942, Emily Carr, “Loyalty”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:

Over the fence, in a shallow gully 100 metres away, this guy and his wife were living on the dirt in the open weather with just a blanket, billies, a dog and a transistor radio. They didn't even have water.

2011, Rod Moss, The Hard Light of Day: An Artist's Story of Friendships in Arrernte Country, unnumbered page:

(Australia, New Zealand) A tin with a swing handle used to boil tea over an open fire; a billycan; a billypot.

kēna

A billycan, a small pot for heating water over a fire

(Australia, slang) A bong for smoking marijuana.


mort

en-noun

mort (countable and uncountable, plural morts)

From Middle English mort, from Old French mort (“death”).

(UK, Scotland, dialect) The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease.

(card games) A variety of dummy whist for three players.


mort

(Internet, informal) A player in a multi-user dungeon who does not have special administrator privileges and whose character can be killed.


mort

morts (plural)
mot (alternative)
mott (alternative)

UK circa 1560–1890. Unknown. Documented possibilities include:
* From mort (“A three-year-old salmon”), by equation of women with fish.
* From Welsh modryb (“aunt”)
* From Welsh morwyn (“maid, virgin”)
* From French amourette (“a crush”)
* From, or cognate with, Dutch mot (“pig, lewd woman”), from Middle Low German mutte.
* From French motte (“mound, esp. mons veneris”)
* From Romani mintš (“female genitals”). Cognate with English minge.

unk

Unknown

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Male gypsies all, not a mort among them.

1621, Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed:

"Yes, master! I and my mort worships something besides good ale; don't we, Sue?" and then he leered at the mort, who leered at him, and both made odd motions backwards and forwards, causing the baskets which hung round them to creak and rustle, and uttering loud shouts of laughter, which roused the echoes of the neighbouring hills.

KINCHIN-MORTS, the Twenty-seventh and last Order of the Canting Crew, being girls of a year or two old whom the Morts (their Mothers) carry at their Backs in Slates (Sheets) and if they have no children of their own they[…]

1896, John Stephen Farmer, Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary ... with Synonyms in English, French ... Etc. Compiled by J.S. Farmer [and W.E. Henley], page 109:

(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A woman; a female.


pug

Origin unknown, possibly related to West Flemish pugge (“(adjective) small; (noun) short person; pet name derived from the first name Pugge”); though it is uncertain whether sense 1 (“senses relating to someone or something small”) and sense 2 (“senses relating to people”) are derived from the same source.
Sense 1.8 (“small demon”) was probably influenced by, though not a variant of, puck.

pentu

It is to be observed in this experiment, […] that the loss of weight by feeding (tegs or pugs) on turnips, is remarkable: […]

1808, Thomas Batchelor, “Live Stock”, in General View of the Agriculture of the County of Bedford. […], London: […] [B. MᶜMillan] for Richard Phillips, […], →OCLC, section 2 (Sheep), page 541:

Senses relating to someone or something small.

(UK, regional, archaic) Also used as a proper name: any of various animals, such as a ferret, hare, squirrel, or young salmon.

(specifically) Synonym of teg (“a sheep (originally a ewe) in its second year, or from the time it is weaned until it is first shorn”)

teg

[…] I heard her call him dear pug, and found him to be her favourite monkey.

1712 October 13 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “THURSDAY, October 2, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 499; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume V, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC, page 454:

Its proper Povver to hurt, each Creature feels, / Bulls aim their Horns, and Aſſes lift their Heels, / 'Tis a Bear's Talent not to kick, but hug, / And no Man vvonders he's not ſtung by Pug: […]

1733, Alexander Pope, The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace, […], London [actually Edinburgh]: […] L[awton] G[illiver] and sold by A. Dodd […], E[lizabeth] Nutt […], →OCLC, page 13:

Take avvay the pug, ſaid I, to the attendants—Take it avvay vvhile any of it is left—They reſcued the ſtill ſmiling babe, and run avvay vvith it.

1753 (indicated as 1754), [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XLIII. Lady G. to Lady Grandison.”, in The History of Sir Charles Grandison. […], 2nd edition, volume VI, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by C. Hitch and L. Hawes, […], →OCLC, page 211:

Or, is the Monkey sick, he takes his bed; / Old Slop is sent for, to prescribe for Pug.— […]

1812, Peter Pindar [pseudonym; John Wolcot], “Tristia; or, The Sorrows of Peter: […]. Elegy.”, in The Works of Peter Pindar, Esq. […], new edition, volume V, London: […] J[ohn] Walker, G. Wilkie and J. Robinson, G. Robinson, […]; and G. Goulding and Co. […], →OCLC, page 297:

(specifically, obsolete) An ape, a monkey; also (by extension) a human child.

[T]here is a dead silence, till pug is well out of cover, and the whole pack well in: then cheer the hounds with tally ho! till your lungs crack. Away he goes in gallant style, and the whole field is hard up, till pug takes a stiff country: […]

1812, [Maria] Edgeworth, “The Absentee. Chapter VIII.”, in Tales of Fashionable Life (2nd series), volume VI, London: […] [Heney] for J[oseph] Johnson and Co., […], →OCLC, pages 93–94:

That spell was broken by the sight of poor wearied pug, his once gracefully-floating brush all draggled and drooping, as he toiled up the sheep-paths toward the open down above.

1848, [Charles Kingsley], “The Philosophy of Fox-hunting”, in Yeast: A Problem. […], London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], published 1851, →OCLC, page 16:

Dear, delicate Madam, I am your little Paraquit, your Sparrovv, your Shock, your Pugg, your Squirrel.

1685 July (first performance), N[ahum] Tate, Cuckolds-Haven: Or, An Alderman No Conjurer. A Farce. […], London: […] J. H. and are to be sold by Edward Poole, […], published 1685, →OCLC, Act I, scene ii, page 5:

Squirrels / Are not uncommon in the plantings on the broad edges, where they may be seen feeding on the deal-apples, as the Broadsmen call the fir-cones; nuts and acorns too they are fond of. […] Stoats sometimes chase them, but "pug" generally manages to escape, an[d] he can get to a tree first—he is a much more daring jumper.

1895, P[eter] H[enry] Emerson, “Shrew Mouse, or Rana, and Squirrels”, in Birds, Beasts and Fishes of the Norfolk Broadland, London: David Nutt, […], →OCLC, page 363:


hircine

en-adj

hircine (comparative more hircine, superlative most hircine)

more hircine (comparative)
most hircine (superlative)
hirquine (alternative)

First attested in its present form in 1650–1660: From Middle English hircyne, from Latin hircīnus (“of a goat”, “goat-scented”); equivalent to hircus (“a male goat”) + -īnus (“-ine”). Cognate with French hircin. Compare caprine, haedine.

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They are monſtrouſly fat, and have a moſt hircine ſmell.

1781, Thomas Pennant, History of Quadrupeds, volume 2, page 528:

1838, Hypericaceæ, entry in The Penny Cyclopaedia, Volume 12, page 411,
Many are objects of ornament, but they are little cultivated because they have frequently a disagreeable hircine odour.

People always smiled a little when they looked at Skøieren, and it was surely true that this dog had a most whimsical appearance, practically lost as he was in the depths of his hircine coat of fur.

1992, Helge Ingstad, Land of Feast and Famine, page 291:

Linnæus formed seven classes of odours of medicines; namely, the aromatic, fragrant, ambrosiac, alliaceous, hircine, fetid, and nauseous.

1820, J. J. Virsey, The Natural History of Medicines, Aliments and Poisons, taken from the Kingdoms of Nature: The London Medical and Physical Journal, volume 44, page 247:

(book word, not comparable) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of goats.

مَعَزِيّ

of, pertaining to, or characteristic of goats

Possessed of an odour reminiscent of goats.


hircine

(mineralogy) A fossil amorphous resin which, when burnt, gives off a pungent, hircinous aroma.


nanny

Constantijn Huygens Jr.
Nanny (disambiguation)

(1795) It has often been assumed that the English term was originally a widespread child's word for "female adult other than mother" (compare Greek νάννα (nánna, “aunt”), nanna). See also Welsh nain (“grandmother”).
On the other hand, according to recent research of the Dutch historical linguists Hans Beelen and Nicoline van der Sijs (published in Onze Taal, September 2018), on which see also etymologiebank.nl, in Dutch), the term nanny (and the British colloquial nan for "grandmother") may actually be eponymous, viz. being originally an affective form (i.e. a hypocoristic) of the popular female name Anne. The Dutch statesman and scientist Constantijn Huygens Jr. made the following observation during one of his many sojourns in England (noted in his Journaal, dated 13 December 1692): "Yesterday I received 10lb of chocolate again, from niece Becker, and she had Nanny, her maid, bringing me the money that she had owed me" (Gisteren kreegh 10 ℔ choccolate wederom van nicht Becker, en had Nanny, haer meidt, geweest om mij 't geldt, dat van haer hebben most, te brengen). Beelen and van der Sijs therefore assumed that "since many female domestic servants were named "Nan" or "Nanny", the name became a sobriquet for the profession of "maid, childminder" in the 18ᵗʰ century". ("Omdat veel vrouwelijke huisbedienden in het Engels de voornaam Nan of Nanny hadden, verschoof de betekenis in de achttiende eeuw naar die van een beroepsaanduiding: ‘meid, kindermeisje’")

onomatopoeic

child's word

Breeding is a consuming goal, and the ascendance of the sex drive is nearly as apparent in the behavior of a mountain goat billy. So given over is he to following and defending a succession of nannies as he searches for one in heat (estrus), he loses interest in food altogether; […]

1983, Douglas H. Chadwick, A Beast the Color of Winter: The Mountain Goat Observed, Bison Books, published 2002, →ISBN, page 159:

Nannies and billies look very similar, both having dangerously sharp, curved black horns.

2005, Richard Cannings, The Rockies: A Natural History, Greystone Books, published 2005, →ISBN, page 103:

A farmer friend keeps a video camera in the barn so she can turn on her goat cam and observe her animals at any time of the day or night. A baby monitor picks up the sounds of a nanny when she goes into labor—if the nanny is one who changes the usual pitch of her voice or nervously bleats during kidding.

2013, Janet Hurst, The Whole Goat Handbook: Recipes, Cheese, Soap, Crafts & More, Voyageur Press, published 2013, →ISBN, page 28:


stag

en-noun

stag (countable and uncountable, plural stags)

stags (plural)
steg (alternative)
staig (alternative)
stagg (alternative)
stagge (alternative)

From Middle English stagge, steg, from Old English stagga, stacga (“a stag”) and Old Norse steggi, steggr (“a male animal”), both from Proto-Germanic *staggijô, *staggijaz (“male, male deer, porcupine”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *stegʰ-, *stengʰ- (“to sting; rod, blade; sharp, stiff”). Cognate with Icelandic steggi, steggur (“tomcat, male fox”). Related to staggard, staggon.

The stag will be held in the hotel's ballroom.

(countable) A social event for men held in honor of a groom on the eve of his wedding, attended by male friends of the groom; sometimes a fundraiser.


black sheep

He always was the black sheep in the family, as an artist among doctors and lawyers.

(idiomatic) A nonconformist; an unusual or unconventional person, who may be rejected or disdained by others for this reason.

бе́лая воро́на f (bélaja voróna, literally “white crow”)


cobbler

Fished for cobblers in the evening. The warbler sings its night-song.

1831 November 10, George Fletcher Moore, “The Journey”, in Martin Doyle, editor, Extracts from the Letters and Journals of George Fletcher Moore, Esq. […], London: Orr and Smith, […]; Dublin: W. Curry, Jun. & Co. […], published 1834, →OCLC, page 122:

The South Australian catfish (Cnidoglanis macrocephalus), a species of catfish native to Australia which has dorsal and pectoral fins bearing sharp, venomous spines.

The soldier or South Australian cobbler (Gymnapistes marmoratus), a brown fish native to southern Australian estuaries which is not closely related to Cnidoglanis macrocephalus, but also has venemous spines on its dorsal and pectoral fins.

Also river cobbler: basa (Pangasius bocourti), an edible species of shark catfish native to the Chao Phraya and Mekong river basins in Southeast Asia.

(US) Condica sutor, an owlet moth native to North America.


Shropshire

/ˈʃɹɒp.ʃə(ɹ)/

From Old English Sċrobbesbyriġscīr, from Sċrobbesburh (“Shrewsbury”) + sċīr (“shire”).

Telford and Wrekin
Telford and Wrekin#English

Shropshire Council, a local government unitary authority which replaced the county council in 2009 in all of Shropshire except Telford and Wrekin.


bummer

From bum (“make unhappy”) + -er (agent noun suffix), originally US drug slang.

af

This young man never had a bummer in some 33 LSD trips. Every one of the them was a delight—everything under control. He needed only to snap his fingers, and down he came, anytime. But on Voyage 34, he finally met himself coming down an up staircase, and the encounter was crushing.

2000, “Phase I”, in Voyage 34: The Complete Trip, performed by Porcupine Tree:

(slang, dated, drug use) A psychedelic crisis; hallucinogenic drug use producing undesirable dysphoric psychological effects, most often fear, paranoia, and especially horrifying hallucinations; a bad trip.


wineskin

Coordinate term: waterskin

A bag, traditionally made from the skin of a goat (a goatskin), used for holding and dispensing wine.


get someone's goat

en-verb

get someone's goat (third-person singular simple present gets someone's goat, present participle getting someone's goat, simple past got someone's goat, past participle (UK) got someone's goat or (US) gotten someone's goat)

gets someone's goat (present singular third-person)
getting someone's goat (participle present)
got someone's goat (past)
got someone's goat (UK participle past)
gotten someone's goat (US participle past)

/ˌɡɛt ˈsʌmwʌnz ˈɡəʊt/

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-get someone's goat.wav

Uncertain; it has been suggested that the term may be derived from French prendre la chèvre (literally “to take the goat”), or refer to the stealing of a goat mascot from a military unit, etc.

der

Coordinate term: yank someone's chain

It really gets my goat when inconsiderate people drop litter in public.

If he had legged it on his own account, because what he heard me say got his goat, I could understand that.

1915, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, chapter XXIII, in Uneasy Money, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton and Company, published 17 March 1916, →OCLC, page 306:

"Unfortunately," said Soames, "there's no such thing as luck in properly regulated assurance, as we shall find, or I'm much mistaken. I shouldn't be surprised if an action lay against the Board for gross negligence!" That had got the Chairman's goat!—Got his goat? What expressions they used nowadays!

1924 October, John Galsworthy, “The Mark Falls”, in The White Monkey, London: William Heinemann, published November 1924, →OCLC, part II, page 123:

But there's one litte thing that gets my goat, / That certainly strikes a sour note. / It's that Southern Ship who has my place— / With her larger decks and her faster pace.

1941 May, “Milestone”, in T. Orchard Lisle, editor, The Log, volume 36, number 8, San Francisco, Calif.: Miller Freeman Publishers, →OCLC, page 34:

It sure did get their goat; they turned without saying a word and walked off toward the highway, red-necked, us laughing behind them. I forget sometimes what laughter can do.

1962 February 1, Ken Kesey, One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Signet Books; 225), New York, N.Y.: New American Library, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: Signet, New American Library, February 1963, →OCLC, page 95:

Sometimes people are quite simply intent on riling us; on getting our goat. [...] If you don't want them to get your goat, don't let them know where it is.

2002, Barry Winbolt, “Looking for New Ideas”, in Difficult People: A Guide to Handling Difficult Behaviour, Seaford, East Sussex: ISR Publishing, Institute for Social Relations, published 2005, →ISBN, section 2, pages 191–192:

As Sandra Strain had seen it, as quickly as Natty had gotten her goat, she had slaughtered it by being apologetic. This was not what the girl had anticipated, nor wanted to hear.

2005, Sandy Santistevan, chapter 7, in Song of the Cicada: A Novel, Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 79:

(informal, idiomatic) To annoy or infuriate someone.

courir sur le haricot

to annoy or infuriate someone — see also annoy, infuriate


Cashmere

Borrowed from Hindustani कश्मीर / کشمیر (kaśmīr, “Kashmir”), from Sanskrit कश्मीर (kaśmīra).


morocco

en-noun

morocco (countable and uncountable, plural moroccos)

From the country name of Morocco, from which this leather was originally imported. Compare maroquin.

The purple morocco cases accompanying the latter contained a handsome set of gold ornaments. Louisa was deeply gratified, even more on Charles's account than on her own; it was such injustice on the part of her family to treat him with such insolence as Lady Anne and Lady Rotheles displayed.

1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 184:

Piers put the letter in an envelope and slipped it into a green morocco-covered volume on the window seat – his sister's diary.

1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 164:

A soft leather, made from goatskin, used especially in bookbinding.


gimmer

From Middle English gimbyre, from Old Norse gymbr (“one-year-old ewe lamb”), from Proto-Germanic *gimrį̄ (“a yearling ewe-lamb”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰyem- (“winter”).

der

(Northern English dialect) A ewe between one and two years old.


jumbuck

Unknown, from pidgin, possibly from an Australian Aboriginal language, although it appears also to have moved from pidgin to Aboriginal. Numerous derivations have been proposed.
* Mr A. Meston of Brisbane, in the Sydney Bulletin of 18 April 1896, cited Aboriginal words jimba, jombock (also jombok), dombock and dumbog, all meaning "white mist preceding a shower," which a flock of sheep supposedly resembles.
* Charles Harpur in a handwritten footnote in his papers cites Aboriginal word junbuc or jimbuc (his handwriting is unclear), "a kind of kangaroo or wallaby", and states that the aborigines of the Hunter region call the sheep thus for the hairiness of one and the wooliness of the other.
* Also suggested is jumbock ("to communicate").
* An English derivation is suggested in a corruption of the phrase "jump up".

Allan told them all that he thought necessary ; but, as he did not know what jumbucks were, he candidly said so.
“Why, sheep, man, sheep! They are jumbucks in this country.”

1855, William Howitt, A Boy's Adventures in the Wilds of Australia: or, Herbert's Note-Book, page 128:

Down came a jumbuck to drink at the billabong,
Up jumped the swagman and grabbed him with glee.

1895, “Waltzing Matilda”, Banjo Paterson (lyrics):

You may rip a sheep open whilst watching for the boss's boots or yarning to a pen-mate, and then when you have stuffed the works back into the animal, and put a stitch in the slit, and poked it somewhere with a tar-stick (it doesn′t matter much where) the jumbuck will be all right and just as lively as ever, and turn up next shearing without the ghost of a scratch on its skin.

1896, Henry Lawson, “Across the Straits”, in While the Billy Boils, Sydney, N.S.W.: Angus and Robertson […], →OCLC, page 179:


billy goat

billy goats (plural)
billy-goat (alternative)
billygoat (alternative)
buck (alternative)

There were once upon a time three Billy-goats, who were going up into the hills to get fat.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 141:


bellwether

bellwethers (plural)
bell-wether (alternative)
bellweather (alternative)

From Middle English belwether, belleweder, equivalent to bell + wether (“castrated ram”).

Several old ladies forthwith proclaimed their intention of following him; but, as one or two of them were deaf, and another had been threatened with an attack of that mild, but obstinate complaint, dementia senilis, many thought it was not so much the force of his arguments as a kind of tendency to jump as the bellwether jumps, well known in flocks not included in the Christian fold.

1861, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., chapter XXXI, in Elsie Venner:

The leading sheep of a flock, having a bell hung round its neck.

përçór

the leading sheep of a flock, having a bell hung round its neck


goat antelope

goat antelopes (plural)
goat-antelope (alternative)

Any of a group of herbivore mammals, the subfamily Caprinae, that includes domestic sheep and goats.


Judas goat

Referring to the traitor Judas Iscariot in the Bible.


shoat

A sheep–goat hybrid (whether artificially produced or the result of animals from these species naturally intermating).


goral

gorals (plural)
ghoral (alternative)
ghooral (alternative)
ghural (alternative)
gooral (alternative)
goorul (alternative)
gural (alternative)

Likely an early borrowing from Nepali घोरल (ghoral, “Himalayan goral”) or a related language.

The goral has a wide distribution, from the Indus Kohistan region in the western Himalaya in Pakistan, across the eastern Himalaya, Myanmar, Thailand, China and in a few scattered areas in South Korea, North Korea, eastern Russia and the adjoining regions of China.

2004, A. J. T. Johnsingh, On Jim Corbett's Trail and Other Tales from Tree-tops, page 62:

The gorals of Shanxi, sometimes separated as a taxon vidianus, fall into the range of N. griseus.

2011, Colin Groves, Peter Grubb, Ungulate Taxonomy, page 251:

The goral is a ruminant (cud chewer) closely related to the serow, but it is distinguished from the serow by peculiarities in its skull form as well as by its smaller size, shorter horns, and absence of conspicuous preorbital glands.

2011, John P. Rafferty, Grazers, page 145:

A type of Asian ungulate ruminant, now defined as any of the four species of the genus Naemorhedus.


angora

en-noun

angora (countable and uncountable, plural angoras)

From the name of the city of Ankara in Turkey, from Ancient Greek ἄγκυρα (ánkura, “anchor”).


teg

First used to contemptuously refer to a woman, then later applied to a ewe in her second year. Possibly borrowed from Swedish tacka (“ewe”).

One Stringor, that brought a tegg from Wresill.

(UK, dialectal, dated) A sheep (originally a ewe) in its second year, or from the time it is weaned until it is first shorn.


lambkin

A lambkin’s snowy fleece

1781, Richard Hole, Homer's Hymn to Ceres, Exeter: B. Thorn & Son, p. 38

There might ye ſee the pioney ſpread vvide, / The full-blovvn roſe, the ſhepherd and his laſs, / Lap-dog and lambkin vvith black ſtaring eyes, / And parrots vvith tvvin cherries in their beak.

1785, William Cowper, “Book I. The Sofa.”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC, page 3:

Let vs condoll the knight: for lamkins vve vvill liue.

1599 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Cronicle History of Henry the Fift, […] (First Quarto), London: […] Thomas Creede, for Tho[mas] Millington, and Iohn Busby […], published 1600, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], signature B2, verso:

She has no real cognisance, dear lambkin, of anything at all.

1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, page 28:


lambskin

lambskin (countable and uncountable, plural lambskins)

The skin of a very young sheep, especially prepared with the fleece still attached. A very fine form of leather.


pashmina

pashmina (countable and uncountable, plural pashminas)

From Persian پشمینه (pašmine). Compare پشمین (pašmin).

Cashmere: the fine wool that grows under the hair of this goat.


Île-de-France

A domestic sheep breed originally from the region.


tur

Borrowed from Russian тур (tur). Doublet of steer and Taurus.

Then to Hanukkah's mild surprise a voice rose up and, with laconic precision, likened this rumored brother Alp to the secretion on the nether parts of a she-tur.

2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre, published 2008, page 90:

Either of two species of wild goat native to Caucasus, West Caucasian tur Capra caucasica or East Caucasian tur Capra cylindricornis.


karakul

karakuls (plural)
caracul (alternative)
qaraqul (alternative)

Named after the town Qorakoʻl, from Uzbek, meaning black lake.


kidskin

kidskin (countable and uncountable, plural kidskins)


sheepskin

sheepskin (countable and uncountable, plural sheepskins)

(countable or uncountable) The tanned skin of a sheep with the fleece left on, especially when used for clothing, rugs, etc.


wolf in sheep's clothing

wolf in sheep's clothing (plural wolves in sheep's clothing)

/ˈwʊlf ɪn ˈʃiːps ˈkləʊðɪŋ/

From Matthew 7:15 in the Bible (King James Version; spelling modernized): “Beware of false prophets which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.”

He ſaith, He doth not plead for all who go under the name of Miniſters in England; he fears there is many of them no better than Wolves in Sheep's Clothing, &c. Then why doth he not come out, and cry againſt them, but remain amongſt them in their Practice? For wherein can he clear himſelf of any one thing, which they are guilty of, which he confeſſes are Wolves in Sheep's Clothing? [...] I have as much ground to ſuſpect him to be one of the Wolves in Sheep's Clothing, as he has ground to ſuſpect his own Companions and Generation to be ſuch.

1659, Edward Burroughs [i.e., Edward Burrough], “Some of the Principles of the Quakers (Scornfully so Called by Men) Vindicated, and Proved Sound, and True, According to the Scriptures: …”, in The Memorable Works of a Son of Thunder and Consolation: […], [London]: [Ellis Hookes], published 1672, →OCLC, page 452:

If the wolf was to be feared, the learned gentleman might rest assured it would be the wolf in sheep's clothing, the masked pretender to patriotism. It was not from the fang of the lion, but from the tooth of the serpent, that reptile that insidiously steals upon the vitals of the constitution and gnaws it to the heart ere the mischief is suspected, that destruction was to be feared.

1785 February 9, Richard Brinsley Sheridan (Member of Parliament for Stafford), “[Proceedings relating to the Westminster Scrutiny]”, in [William Cobbett], editor, The Parliamentary History of England, from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803. […] (House of Commons of the United Kingdom), volume XXV, London: Printed by T[homas] C[urson] Hansard, […] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown; [et al.], published 1815, →OCLC, column 47:

The military power ſhould ever be kept diſtinct. We then ſee it, we know it by its proper name, we are on our guard, but when a power of a ſimilar kind intrudes itſelf upon us, under the name of a civil power, the wolf in ſheep's clothing deceives and endangers us.

1790 February 24, Arthur Browne, “[Committee on the bill to continue an act passed in the 27th year of his present majesty, entitled an act for the better execution of the law and preservation of the peace within counties at large]”, in The Parliamentary Register: Or, History of the Proceedings and Debates of the House of Commons of Ireland, […] (Irish House of Commons), volume X, Dublin: Printed by P. Byrne, […]; and J. Moore, […], →OCLC, page 310:

A deceitful man is a wolf in sheep's clothing. He will appear innocent, cheerful, polite, attentive, kind, obliging, and abjectly condescending; but let him once get you into his power and he becomes more ferocious, more cruel, and more destructive than the most savage animals that ever trod in deserts uninhabited by rational beings.

1806, Thoughts on Deceit, Margate, Kent: Printed by J. Warren, […], →OCLC, pages 15–16:

And if he preached other than the right doctrine, wherefore did his superiors in the Carthusian convent permit it? If the shepherds turn a wolf in sheep's clothing into the flock, they should not blame the sheep for being worried.

[1828 May 15, [Walter Scott], chapter II, in Chronicles of the Canongate. Second Series. […] (The Fair Maid of Perth), volume III, Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Co.] for Cadell and Co.; London: Simpkin and Marshall, →OCLC, page 27:

[H]ere, then, was a community of good taste and kind feeling, no sharpers, no black-legs, no wolves in sheep's clothing.

1836 December 31, Laurie Todd, “Letter from Laurie Todd: Christmas and New-Year’s-Day”, in New-York Mirror, a Weekly Journal, Devoted to Literature and the Fine Arts, volume XIV, number 27, New York, N.Y.: Scott & Co., printers, →OCLC, page 211, column 1:

So the tales were told ages before Æsop: and asses under lion's manes roared in Hebrew; and sly foxes flattered in Etruscan; and wolves in sheep's clothing gnashed their teeth in Sanscrit, no doubt.

[1854, Arthur Pendennis [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], “The Overture—after which the Curtain Rises upon a Drinking Chorus”, in The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, volume I, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], →OCLC, page 4:

The larvae, it seemed, had "passed" as aphids. Like "wolves in sheep's clothing" they appeared to have fooled the guardians of their prey.

1978 February 17, Thomas Eisner, Karen Hicks, Maria Eisner, Douglas S. Robson, “‘Wolf-in-Sheep’s-Clothing’ Strategy of a Predaceous Insect Larva”, in Science, volume 199, number 4330, Washington, D.C.: American Association for the Advancement of Science, →DOI, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, →PMID, page 793, columns 1–2:

(idiomatic) Someone who or something which is harmful or threatening but disguised as something peaceful or pleasant.

King James Version
wolf in sheep's clothing

ujk me lëkurë qengji

someone or something harmful or threatening but disguised as something peaceful or pleasant

黃鼠狼給雞拜年——沒安好心 /黄鼠狼给鸡拜年——没安好心

huángshǔláng gěi jī bàinián, méi ān hǎoxīn

猫被り (ねこかぶり, nekokaburi, literally “pretending to be a cat”)


ancon

From Latin ancōn, from Ancient Greek ἀγκών (ankṓn, “bend, elbow, cranny”).


goatskin

en-noun

goatskin (countable and uncountable, plural goatskins)

From Middle English geet skin; equivalent to goat + skin.


kid leather

kid leather (countable and uncountable, plural kid leathers)

Leather made from the skin of a young goat.


merino

merino (countable and uncountable, plural merinos)

(countable) A sheep of a Spanish breed with long, fine hair.


bighorn

especially, Ovis canadensis, having large, curving horns.


hogget

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-hogget.wav

From Middle English hogget, from Anglo-Norman hoget and an Anglo-Latin hogettus.

(chiefly UK, New Zealand) The meat of a young sheep.


hoggerel

hoggerels (plural)
hoggeril (alternative)
hoggrel (alternative)
hogrel (alternative)
hogrell (alternative)


Faroes

A breed of domestic sheep, native to the Faroe Islands


takin

From a Tibeto-Burman language, probably Miju or Taraon.

Budorcas taxicolor
Budorcas taxicolor#Translingual

A goat-antelope, of species Budorcas taxicolor.


doeling

Before your kids are born, decide how many doelings you will keep and stick with it.

1994, Carla Emery, The Encyclopedia of Country Living ninth edition, Sasquatch Books, Seattle Washington, page 715

A female domestic goat of less than one year of age.


she-goat

From Middle English sche-geyt; equivalent to she- + goat.


aoudad

Aoudads compete with native deer and actually run them off shared range, according to TPWD^([Texas Parks and Wildlife Department]) ethnobotanist David Alloway. There is no doubt that the aoudad must be removed from the ranch; the only question is how.

1995, Dick Bartlett, Saving the Best of Texas: A Partnership Approach to Conservation, page 183:

In captivity the aoudad seems to like water and to enjoy taking a bath. The diet consists of grass, herbaceous plants, and stunted bushes.

1999, Ronald M. Nowak, “Aoudad, or Barbary Sheep”, in Walker′s Mammals of the World, volume 1, page 1231:

New Mexico addressed this anxiety by issuing game department personnel a shoot-on-sight order for any aoudad found inside known bighorn boundaries in New Mexico. By comparison, Arizona′s intent was to eliminate any aoudad loose anywhere inside its jurisdiction, and its neighbor′s other additions were not welcome either.

2007, Elizabeth Cary Mungall, Exotic Animal Field Guide: Nonnative Hoofed Mammals in the United States, page 12:

Ammotragus lervia
Ammotragus lervia#Translingual


Barbary sheep

A wild North African caprid (not a true sheep), Ammotragus lervia


weaner

"I mean she's too young to get married," said Oscar. "Doesn't know she's alive yet—like calfing a weaner."

1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter IX, in Capricornia, page 138:

An animal that has been recently weaned.


chilver

The chilver and pur lambs, at 2d. per head for about 40 weeks, will cost

1812, General View of the Agriculture of the County of Dorset, page 407:

For the last few years I have put out my Chilver lambs to keep from the middle of October til Lady-day upon a dry, sheltered, and healthy farm, andd as the result of this plan, I have found that the lambs did quite as well there with cut swedes and hay as they would on my high exposed farm during the winter upon the same allowance of roots and hay, with the addition of a quarter of a pound of best cake per day for each lamb.

1868, British Farmer's Magazine - Issue 54, page 114:

Among the purchasers of the Chilver lambs were Mr. Morrison, a lot at £170; Mr. Taylor, £80; Mr. Buxton, :£33 10s, Mr Holdsworth £34

1874, The Farmer's Magazine - Volume 76, page 259:

To repairing Hurne bridge 1 chilver shepe.

1898, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, page 66:

If anything has to go short, it will not be the heifers or chilver lambs, as they call their yearling ewes ; and in fact , as I have already said, except in the occasional seasons of drouth, the Dorset ewe during the four or five years of her life never knows what it is to want.

1898, Wool Markets and Sheep - Volumes 8-9, page 2:

In the summer and autumn, the chilver lambs are frequently folded, being fed on grass, rape, turnips, and hay, from the latter end of summer till the following spring.

1970, William Marshall, Southern and peninsular departments, page 280:


nanny goat

nanny goats (plural)
nanny-goat (alternative)
nannygoat (alternative)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-nanny goat.wav

And later, at an opportune moment, when Franny was pretending to sample a cup of chicken broth, Mrs. Glass had climbed up on the window seats with the agility of a mountain nanny goat and stripped all three of the sash windows of their heavy damask curtains.

1957, J. D. Salinger, “Zooey”, in Franny and Zooey, published 1961:


serow

From Lepcha ᰠᰶᰛᰨ (să-ro, “long-haired Tibetan goat”).

uder

The peninsula is home to an estimated four hundred macaques, the world's most northerly colony of wild monkeys, and a growing population of red-haired, goat-like serow, both of which are a protected species.

1999, Jan Dodd, Simon Richmond, The Rough Guide to Japan, page 265:

The serow differs in being larger, at least 32 inches (81 cm) tall, whereas gorals are never more than 28 inches (71 cm). Serows are also distinguished in having small face glands that give out a duikerlike odor.

2002, Maurice Burton, Robert Burton, International Wildlife Encyclopedia, page 2323:

Where official protection is accorded, it is usually on paper only, as the serow is hunted for meat and its body parts, which are used in local medicine. (For example, it is believed that the broth obtained by boiling a serow head is a remedy for arthritis.)

2011, John P. Rafferty, editor, Grazers, page 147:

Any of several species of Asian ungulates of the genus Capricornis.

серау

any of several species of Asian ungulates of the genus Capricornis


Katahdin

From Abenaki Ktaden, Ktaaden (“great mountain”), from kta-, gita- (“great”) (compare Penobscot kta- (“great”)) + aden (“mountain”) (whence also monadnock). Cognate to Penobscot Ktàtən.


Texel

A domestic sheep of a heavily-muscled breed originally from the island of Texel.


Radnor

From Radnorshire, former county in Wales. Originally from Old English rēad + ōra (“red bank”).

Radnorshire, a former county of Wales, also known as the County of Radnor.


markhor

Borrowed from Urdu مارخور (mārxor), from Persian مارخور (mârxor, literally “snake-eater”), from مار (mâr, “snake”) + خور (xor) (present stem of خوردن (xordan, “to eat”)).

der

He was taught the legends of the Mess Plate, from the great grinning Golden Gods that had come out of the Summer Palace in Pekin to the silver-mounted markhor-horn snuff-mull presented by the last C.O. (he who spake to the seven subalterns).

[1889 January], Rudyard Kipling, “Only a Subaltern”, in Under the Deodars (A. H. Wheeler & Co.’s Indian Railway Library; no. 4), Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh: A[rthur] H[enry] Wheeler & Co.; London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, […], →OCLC, page 84:

A large wild goat, Capra falconeri, especially Capra falconeri megaceros, syn. Capra megaceros, having huge flattened spiral horns, found in the western Himalayas.


shearling

From Middle English scherling; equivalent to shear + -ling.

Her coat was lined with shearling.

(chiefly US) A sheepskin or lambskin that has gone through a limited shearing process so that the fibers are of uniform depth


ovicaprid

A domestic sheep or goat. Also called a caprovine.


caprid

(zoology) Any member of the subfamily Caprinae.


Southdown

I saw a Southdown or two among the others in the flock.

One of a particular English breed of small sheep with short wool and no horns.


sakeen

From Tibetan སྐྱིན (skyin, “Tibetan ibex”).


bezoar goat

Capra aegagrus
Capra aegagrus#Translingual

A wild goat, Capra aegagrus, native to Asia Minor and the Middle East and also found on Crete, now believed ancestral to the domestic goat.


snow sheep

Ovis nivicola
Ovis nivicola#Translingual

Ovis nivicola, a species of sheep from the mountainous areas in the northeast of Siberia.


argali

From Mongolic (Mongolian аргаль (argalʹ)).

Ovis ammon, the largest wild sheep, which roams the highlands of Central Asia.


domestic sheep

Ovis aries, domesticated sheep kept as livestock


thinhorn sheep

Ovis dalli, a species of sheep native to northwestern North America, ranging from white to slate brown in color and having curved yellowish brown horns.


izard

From French isard, further derivation uncertain.

[T]hat threatening aspect with which they seemed to hang over the wandering traveller […] bid him to fear, lest even the light steps of the Izard (the Chamois of the Pyrenees), or the wild goats, who now and then appeared suspended amid the craggy fissures, should disunite them from the mountain itself and bury him beneath their thundering ruins.

1791, Charlotte Smith, Celestina, Broadview, published 2004, page 474:

A Pyrenean chamois (Rupicapra pyrenaica).


tahr

tahrs (plural)
tair (alternative)
tehr (alternative)

Borrowed from Nepali थार (thār), from थारल (thāral).

Any of three genera of large Asian ungulates belonging to the subfamily Caprinae (goat-antelopes).


urial

Borrowed from Pothohari Punjabi ہڑیال m (huṛiāl), ultimately from Sanskrit हुड m (huḍa).

All domesticated sheep are descended from the moufflon, urial or argali. They are closely related to each other and connected by intermediate breeds. Most wool sheep are believed to have been derived from urial stock, while hair sheep are traced back to the moufflon.

1990, “Animals, Domestication of”, in A. Ghosh, editor, An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology, page 3:

O. severtzovi has been shuffled back and forth between the urial and the argali groups.

2011, Colin Groves, Peter Grubb, Ungulate Taxonomy, page 237:

Most urials live in open habitats, with few or no trees, but there are indications that this may be a recent adaptation to changing environmental conditions and that the urial was originally more of a woodland animal than at present.

2011, John P. Rafferty, Grazers, Britannica Educational Publishing, page 136:

A bearded reddish sheep, subspecies of Ovis orientalis (including Ovis orientalis vignei), previously classified as Ovis vignei, being endemic to southern Asia and believed to be a wild ancestor of domestic sheep.


hogg

A young sheep of either gender, until it cuts its first two teeth; a hogget.


ægagrus

But this difference is leſs perceptible, in comparing the bouquetin with the Siberian ibex, the ibex with the ægagrus, and the ægagrus with the tame goat.

1789, William Coxe, Travels in Switzerland, volume II, pages 51–52:


Corriedale

A sheep of a dual-purpose breed that is a cross between Merino and Lincoln sheep.


yakin

A large Himalayan antelope, Budorcas taxicolor


dinmont

(Scotland) A castrated sheep between one and two years old.


bharal

On the way we disturbed the peace of three bharals and the female of a snow-cock ; the latter, with her brood hardly a week old, rose almost from my feet as I clambered round a rock tower.

1955, The Alpine Journal, volume 60, page 262:

In appearance, the bharal resembles both a sheep and a goat. Its horns are smooth, rounded and form a curve backwards over the neck. The fur is brownish grey in colour which attains a slaty grey hue in winter and becomes browner in summer. In Kumaun the bharal is found in the desolate tracts of northern Pithoragarh, usually on the slopes of the main Himalayan range where it lives between the timberline and the snowline.

1993, Sharad Singh Negi, Kumaun: The Land and the People, page 106:

1997, A. David, Shivakumar, Animal World, page 52,
The bharal or the Blue Sheep also is a Tibetan animal found in Ladakh, Sikkim and Nepal. It is about 90 cm. high. The bharal is brownish-grey in colour, tinted with slaty-blue, more brown in summer and more slaty-blue in winter.

2013, Q. Ashton Acton (general editor), Advances in Conservation Research and Application, 2013 Edition, page 142,
Among the wild prey, bharal (blue sheep/naur) Pseudois nayaur was by far the most common species (92%).

A blue sheep, being any species of the genus Pseudois, goatlike bovids of the Himalayas and western China with a bluish-grey coat; Himalayan blue sheep (Pseudois nayaur).


spider goat

A goat that has a spider's genes, and produces silk during lactation.


kid glove

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-kid glove.wav

From kid gloves (made from the skin of a young lamb or goat), a particularly fine, soft material.

to handle with kid gloves

He's usually very sensitive about this sort of thing; make sure you put on your kid gloves before you see him.

His friend Penny Vieregge provided a glimpse into his actual experience when she described the "incredible fragility" in Dick at the time, "like fine, fine, porcelain. . . . I wanted to put on kid gloves and be there in case the shattering came."

2005, Jeffrey John Kripal, Glenn W. Shuck, On the Edge of the Future: Esalen and the Evolution of American Culture, page 154:

This time around the enemy took off the kid gloves. He saw that his previous plans to destroy me had failed. Instead of sending boys to do a man's job, he sent a man that he knew would win me over.

2008, Barbie Jones, The Power to Choose - A Victim No More, page 44:

Malcolm: Be gentle with them.
 Jamie: Oh, you know me Malc. Kid gloves, but made from real kids.

Unlike Bing, GPT-4 usually flat-out refused to take the bait when I tried to get it to talk about consciousness, or get it to provide instructions for illegal or immoral activities, and it treated sensitive queries with kid gloves and nuance.

2023 March 15, Kevin Roose, “GPT-4 Is Exciting and Scary”, in The New York Times:

(figurative, usually in the plural) A metaphorical representation of careful handling.


Romney

From a name of a village in Kent (see Old Romney), from a compound of Latin rumen (“gullet”) and Old English ēa (“river”).

Hampshire County
Hampshire County#English

A city, the county seat of Hampshire County, West Virginia, United States, named after Romney in Kent.


theave

theaves (plural)
thaive (alternative)
thave (alternative)

Inherited from Middle English theve (“young ewe”), from Old English *þeofu, from Proto-West Germanic *þebu.

inh+

The ewes by them-selfe, the share-hogges and theyues by them selfe

1523, Anthony Fitzherbert, Boke of Husbandry:

Comprising eleven calved and in-calf cows and heifers, three barren cows, […] fifteen in-lamb ewes and theaves, […] yearling draught colt and filly, pony, yearling fummel, mare ass in-foal to a pony, two waggons, […]

1843 March 3, “To Be Sold by Auction, By B. Cheatle & Son”, in Leicester Journal, and Midland Counties General Advertiser, volume 92, number 4895, Leicester: James Jackson, page 2:

A dorring drush in the caddled yew. / A seance o' theaves beneath the woak.

2022, PJ Harvey, Orlam, Picador, page 265:

(UK, dialect) A ewe lamb of a specific age; in some areas, applied to lambs in their the first or second year (before they have had lambs themselves), in others to lambs in their third year, before their second shearing.


mountain sheep

On the 29th we passed into the territory of the Panock Indians—a tribe of hunters, who find an abundant subsistence in the myriads of mountain sheep, antelopes, prairie dogs, and other animals, with which the country abounds.

1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 36:

Wild mountain sheep are perhaps the most accomplished and dare-devil acrobats in the animal world.

1915 April 21, Enos A. Mills, “Wild Mountain Sheep”, in The Rocky Mountain Wonderland, Houghton Mifflin, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 24:

The bighorn (Ovis canadensis) of the Rocky Mountains.


shorling

(UK, dialect, obsolete) A person who is shorn; a shaveling.


shapoo

(dated) The urial (subspecies of sheep).


lambling

I have seen the lamblings skipping / In sunshine and in mist; […]

1843, Punch Or The London Charivari - Volume 5 - Page 83

These woolly lamblings were immensely affected by his exhortations, and when he gave out the hymn, there was such a negro chorus about the house as might be heard across the Potomac — such a chorus as would never have been heard […]

1905, William Makepeace Thackeray, The works of William Makepeace Thackeray:

These two pivots of the Great Wheel, blended, had brought men, women and children in their thousands, to kill some miserable lambling . . . on the temple steps in stonement for their sins […]

2007, Hugh B. Urban, Tantra: Sex, Secrecy, Politics and Power in the Study of Religion - Page 115:

So tell me, lamblings, what's gonna keep a big bad supernatural predator from munching down on you succulent little morsels?” he asked, thoroughly creeping me out.

2015, John Conroe, College Arcane, page 74:


Soay

1961 August 3, Peter Jewell, The wild sheep of St Kilda, New Scientist, No. 246, page 268,
These apparently wild Soay sheep have bred on the island for centuries, virtually untended by Man. They are a relic of primitive domestic sheep, little improved from their wild progenitors.

We first discuss a multiyear study on Soay sheep (Ovis aries) and red deer (Cervus elaphus) that has successfully yielded a sophisticated understanding of population regulation (Clutton-Brock et al., 1997).

2000, Laurence D. Mueller, Amitabh Joshi, Stability in Model Populations, page 250:

Such selective antagonism can be seen as a form of parent-offspring conflict and has been demonstrated in Soay sheep (Wilson et al. 2005c).

2009, Alistair J. Wilson, Marco Festa-Bianchet, “5: Maternal Effects in Wild Ungulates”, in Dario Maestripieri, Jill M. Mateo, editors, Maternal Effects in Mammals, page 94:

A primitive breed of domestic sheep descended from feral sheep on the island of Soay, Scotland.


Dall sheep

Dall sheep (plural)
Dall's sheep (alternative)

Named after William Healey Dall (1845–1927), an American naturalist.

A species of wild sheep native to northwestern North America, Ovis dalli.


mountain antelope

en-noun

mountain antelope (plural mountain antelopes)


Coopworth

A sheep of a breed developed in New Zealand, used for both meat and wool.


lambie

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-lambie.wav

Your lambies aren't lambies anymore, but they're pining for you just the same, and I'll drop them off on my way back if you want.

2008, Karen J. Hasley, Waiting for Hope, page 226:

The part I don't like about sheep and wool festivals? The part where the little lambies aren't considered part of the fiber-bearing aspect but as part of the snack-food aspect. Lambies on a stick or ground up into sausage are not nearly as much fun to imagine as gamboling lambies waiting happily to be shorn.

2011, Mary Beth Temple, The Secret Language of Knitters, page 113:

They are misguided by misinformation, and talking the Undisputed Truth is a physical means of weaning these little lambies from their childish and sheep like behaviour.

2014, Lee Maddaford, True Enlightenment, page 29:


Bowen technique

Named after Thomas Ambrose Bowen (1916–1982).

alternative medicine
alternative medicine

A form of bodywork in alternative medicine, involving gentle rolling motions along the muscles, tendons, and fascia.


Teeswater

From Tees + water, after the river in northern England.

One of an old English breed of sheep, allied to the Leicester.


Marco Polo sheep

Marco Polo sheep (plural Marco Polo sheep)

Ovis ammon polii, a subspecies of argali found in mountainous regions of Central Asia.


Rambouillet

A sheep of a breed that originated in France.


bucardo

In 2008 there was an attempt to revive the Spanish bucardo, a subspecies of ibex.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 308:

The Pyrenean ibex (Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica).


rupicaprine

An excellent indication of this fact is the absence in Pityusic Pleistocene sites of the rupicaprine Myotragus, which is so frequent in the ossiferous Quaternary breccia of Mallorca and Menorca.

1984, K. Kuhbièr, Biogeography and Ecology of the Pityusic Islands, page 117:

The caprines, apart from rupicaprines and Saigini have been included by Schaller (1977) in the category 'selective grazer and browser; uses several vegetation types; seasonal diet change; large home area' of Jarman's (1974) classification.

1994, Y. P. S. Pangtey, High Altitudes of the Himalaya:

These two very distinct genera appear to form a convenient bridge between the antelopes on the one hand and the rupicaprines on the other.

2012, Hiroaki Soma, The Biology and Management of Capricornis and Related Mountain Antelopes:

A mammal of the genus Rupicapra; a chamois.


Pyrenean ibex

A recently extinct subspecies of the Iberian ibex (†Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica).


keb

en-verb

keb (third-person singular simple present kebs, present participle kebbing, simple past and past participle kebbed)

kebs (present singular third-person)
kebbing (participle present)
kebbed (participle past)
kebbed (past)

(Northern England, dialect) Of a ewe, to abort a lamb.


keb

(Northern England, dialect) A still-born lamb.


fainting goat

a breed of domestic goat characterised by a genetic disorder known as myotonia congenita, wherein the muscles freeze for roughly 3 seconds when the goat feels panic


ewe lamb

It was my first book, my only book, my ewe lamb; but it was not a “work,” not an “important publication, ” like Mr. Lecky's “Map of Life." The reviewers did not welcome it either eagerly or seriously.

1900, The Book Lover, numbers 5-10, page 234:

A poor person's sole possession (in reference to the Bible, 2 Samuel xii).


arietiform

/ˌɛəɹiˈɛtɪfɔːm/

/ˌɛɹiˈɛtɪfɔɹm/

From Latin arietis (the genitive singular of ariēs (“a ram”)) + English -form (suffix meaning ‘having the shape or form of’). Ariēs is derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₁r-i-(e)t- (“a certain domestic animal”).

ref

From Robert Ridgway (1886) A Nomenclature of Colors for Naturalists, and Compendium of Useful Knowledge for Ornithologists, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Company, figure XV.

der

The arietiform marks become broader and more prominent.

The great mass of the strata in question clearly belongs to the "Lima-beds or Zone of Ammonites Bucklandi." This is proved by the remarkable abundance of Gryphœa arcuata of the typical form, and by the numerous and fine examples of Lima gigantea which occur—and especially by the presence of such characteristic arietiform Ammonites as A. Bucklandi, Sow., A. Conybeari, Sow., A. Kridion, Hehl, and many others.

1878 January 23, John W[esley] Judd, “39. The Secondary Rocks of Scotland. Third Paper. The Strata of the Western Coast and Islands.”, in The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, volume XXXIV, London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer […], →ISSN, →OCLC, section V (Description of the Secondary Strata and Associated Formations in the Western Highlands), page 702:

The species is S[chlegelia] wilsoni, better known as Paradisea or Diphyllodes wilsoni, of Waigiou and Batanta. The male is 7¼ inches long, the tail 2, with its middle pair of feathers as long again, twice crossed and then curled in arietiform figure.

1890–1891, “Schlegelia”, in William Dwight Whitney, editor, The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language […], volume V, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 5391, column 3:

The writer is of the opinion that this grouping is in great need of revision, in the following respects: Halilucites comprises the arietiform Hungarites of the Bosnian Muschelkalk and is either a synonym or subgenus of Eutomoceras Hyatt, for the type species of Hungarites Mojsisovies is one of the arietiform group and closely allied with Eutomoceras laubei Meek, the type of Eutomoceras.

1914, James Perrin Smith, “Systematic Descriptions”, in The Middle Triassic Marine Invertebrate Faunas of North America (United States Geological Survey Professional Paper; 83), Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 75:

Discotropites mojsvarensis Smith, […] The form and ornamentation are decidedly arietiform and bear some resemblance to the arietiform Eutomoceras (Halilucites) of the Middle Triassic but differ in the spiral lines, long body chamber, and digitate septa.

1927, James Perrin Smith, “Systematic Descriptions”, in Upper Triassic Marine Invertebrate Faunas of North America (U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper; 141), Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 42, column 2:

As compared with D[ipodomys] a[gilis] agilis, D. a. fuscus [a subspecies of kangaroo rat] differs as follows: Dorsal color darker; yellow-orange of sides paler, arietiform facial markings heavier, and black rather than brownish; […]

1943 September 16, Jean T[hresher] Boulware, “Dipodomys agilis fuscus, New Subspecies”, in J. F. Daniel, E. R. Hall, Harold Kirby, S. F. Light, editors, Two New Subspecies of Kangaroo Rats (Genus Dipodomys) From Southern California (University of California Publications in Zoölogy; volume 46, number 7), Berkeley, Los Angeles, Calif.: University of California Press; London: Cambridge University Press, →OCLC, page 394:

(zoology) Having the shape of a ram's head or of the astrological symbol of Aries, ⟨♈⟩.


wild goat

Capra aegagrus, a species or goat believed ancestral to and including the domestic goat.


serpent-eater

A wild goat of India and Kashmir, the markhor.


sheep in wolf's clothing

en-noun

sheep in wolf's clothing (plural sheep in wolves' clothing)

Humorous alteration of wolf in sheep's clothing.

The hunter-insects, as we have seen, disguise themselves so as to get near their victims unawares, and the hunted disguise themselves very often in the same way so as to avoid being seen, but sometimes in such a way that if they are seen they may appear to be much more terrible creatures than they really are. And so we have the sheep in wolves’ clothing.

1910, Douglas English, A Book of Nimble Beasts: Bunny Rabbit, Squirrel, Toad, and “Those Sort of People”, London: Eveleigh Nash, page 221:

Someone or something that appears fierce or threatening but is actually harmless or means no harm.


Stone sheep

Stone sheep (plural)
Stone's sheep (alternative)
stone sheep (alternative)

Grasses and forbs comprise the major portion of the Stone sheep's diet.

2000, Vin T. Sparano, The Complete Outdoors Encyclopedia, page 213:

Ovis dalli stonei, a sheep native to northern British Columbia


Manx longhorn

A primitive breed of sheep native to the Isle of Man, noted for having multiple sets of horns, and shaggy wool.


Negretti

Negretti (plural)
Negrettis (plural)
negretti (alternative)
Negrette (alternative)
negrette (alternative)

Uncertain. Probably from Negretti, the name or title of the family which owned the strain.

If a man with large means intends to raise for wool merely, or principally, I leave it open to him to select Negrettes or Combwools, as both will pay with necessary care; and although I belong to the old merino school, I am last to deny the qualities of a Cotswold.

1871, C. C. Hutchinson, Resources and Development of Kansas: Fifteen Years Experience, Topeka, KS: C. C. Hutchinson, pages 131–132:

A sheep of a Merino strain of Spanish origin, known for having very fine wool.


capreol

Ixion[…]turn'd dancer, does nothing but cut capreols, fetch friskals, and leads lavaltoes

Run through the field with frisks and kicks, In various capreols and tricks, Some ease poor thing, alass, to find;

1670, Virgil, Scarronides; Or Virgile Travestie, page 73:

A little Wall lay sculking about this Territory of the Dead, which we suppos'd was plac'd there as a Bulwark to their Ashes, but it prov'd but a feeble Fence against the Intrusion of the Lambs, who made frequent Capreols into this adjacent Dormitory.

1743, John Torbuck, A collection of Welch travels, and memoirs of Wales, page 21:

Ye know the capers our friends cut, their transnatural leaps exceed the capreols at Sadler's, or those of Del Phobo, or the dance of Merlin's giants: fools!

1756, John Dove, An Essay on Inspiration, page 182:

Noblissimo's First Gentleman remarks 'Your Lordship rid to day beyond Perseus on his Pegasus' and Noblissimo, modestly deferring, 'No Monsieur, he went (if Poets speak truth) in higher Capreols than ever I shall make my Horse go'.

2016, Peter Edwards, Elspeth Graham, Authority, Authorship and Aristocratic Identity in Seventeenth-Century England, page 137:


mutton busting

From mutton (“sheep”) + busting (“turning an animal into a beast of burden”), modeled on the phrase bronco busting.

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See all these sheep over there? All those kids are gonna be racing. […] What's this called again? Mutton busting. Mutton busting?

[2011, Wes Cunningham, Brandon Dickerson, Thomas Ward, directed by Brandon Dickerson, Sironia (motion picture):

What is mutton busting? […] Apparently, in certain parts of the country it's perfectly acceptable to take your 2- to 6-year-old child, strap a helmet on their tiny, fragile, still-growing head and throw them on the back of a frantic sheep in front of a cheering audience. It's a very, very real thing at junior rodeos, […]

But mutton busting quickly caught on and is now a staple at rodeos and fairs around the country, and even overseas, despite occasional opposition from animal rights groups.

2020 February 1, John MacCormack, “Mutton busting a popular rodeo event for kids in San Antonio and nationwide”, in My San Antonio:

I feel like having all of the livestock exhibits and shows under one roof has been fun and educational for our fair families as well as the public. […] Our truck and tractor pull were well attended, and we had some great reviews on that. [T]he mutton busting area was packed!

2020 May 14, Victoria Smithey, “History of Laramie County Fair Part 1”, in Pine Bluffs Post:

A form of entertainment, akin to bull riding, where young children compete to hold onto the back of sheep for as long as possible.


walia

walias (plural)
walia ibex (alternative)
Walia ibex (alternative)
Walia goat (alternative)


goatrel

goatrels (plural)
goatrill (alternative)


fat-tailed sheep

en-noun

fat-tailed sheep (plural fat-tailed sheep)

A domestic sheep of a variety known for its distinctive large tail and hindquarters, found mainly in northern Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia.


Galician goat

Capra aegagrus hircus
Capra aegagrus hircus#Translingual

Capra aegagrus hircus, a breed of goat originating from Galicia.


white goat

There is no evidence whatever of the white goat having existed in Wyoming.

1905, Madison Grant, The Rocky Mountain Goat, New York : Office of the Society, page 22:

The white goat likes the regions of great precipitation, and it is most abundant in the high mountains where much snow falls.

1917, Fur News and Outdoor World, page 3:


mouse-goat

Other island examples include pygmy hippos, pygmy deer, pygmy foxes, and the peculiar “mouse-goat”—an extinct species of dwarf sheep that had lived on the Balearic Islands of Spain.

Bones of this animal – the so called ‘mouse-goat’, Myotragus balearicus – were first discovered by the pioneering fossil hunter Dorothea Bate (1878–1951).

2014, Paul D. Taylor, Aaron O'Dea, A History of Life in 100 Fossils, page 201:

It was once thought that the first humans in the Balearics had domesticated the mouse-goat, as what appeared to be pens filled with dung were found in some caves.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 249:

An extinct genus of goat-antelope (†Myotragus), which lived on the Balearic Islands in the late Pleistocene and early Holocene.


Pyrenean chamois

Pyrenean chamois (countable and uncountable, plural Pyrenean chamoises or Pyrenean chamois)

Pyrenean chamoises (plural)
Pyrenean chamois (plural)

Rupicapra pyrenaica, a goat-antelope that lives in the Pyrenees and the Apennine Mountains of central Italy.


Oberhasli goat

From the Swiss district Oberhasli + goat.

Chamois Colored Goat
Chamois Colored Goat

A modern American breed of dairy goat that derives from the subtype of the Chamois Colored Goat from the Oberhasli district of the Bernese Oberland in central Switzerland (the original creation / pure line of the Oberhasli goat was lost in the country of Switzerland).


Gobi argali

Ovis ammon darwini, a subspecies of the argali.


Nubian ibex

A desert-dwelling ibex (Capra nubiana) found in mountainous areas of northern and northeast Africa, and the Middle East.


American Pygmy

American Pygmy (plural American Pygmies)

An American breed of achondroplastic (dwarf) goat.


American pygmy goat

American pygmy goat (plural American pygmy goats)


African pygmy goat

African pygmy goat (plural African pygmy goats)


Border Leicester

Border Leicester (plural Border Leicesters)

A sheep of a polled, long-wool British breed reared for meat and wool.


Targhee

Named after the Targhee National Forest in the U.S.

A sheep of a dual-purpose breed with heavy, medium-quality wool and good meat production characteristics.


Alpine goat

A medium to large-sized breed of domestic goat that originated in the French Alps.


Boer goat

A breed of goat originated in South Africa.


Anglo-Nubian goat

Anglo-Nubian goat (plural Anglo-Nubian goats)

A large breed of long-eared goat originating in the United Kingdom.


Anglo-Nubian

Anglo-Nubian goat
Anglo-Nubian goat#English


Xalda sheep

Borrowed from Asturian xaldu ("inhabitant of the valleys").

An endangered breed of sheep indigenous to the Asturias province of Northern Spain.


kurdyuk

Study of the blood factors of 345 sheep, including hybrids and backcrosses between the wild O. polii karelini and the New-Caucasian Merino, Prococe, and Kurdyuk, showed that in glutthione concentration, dry residue and specific gravity of the blood, and resistance of erythrocytes to solution the hybrids excelled the purebreds.

1939, United States. Office of Experiment Stations, Experiment Station Record, page 489:


Siberian ibex

Siberian + ibex. Compare translingual Capra sibirica.